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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't like it.  After reading a fantastic and dark little short story by Tanith Lee that I found in my textbook (the name escapes me at the moment), which was also a fairy tale retelling, I eagerly looked up her work and found this.  Oh I was excited to start reading, and I even remember l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30293452">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book and all of its &quot;vulgarities&quot; as someone commented, but then I just love a twisted and dark faery tale.  I'm re-reading it after having somehow misplaced it many years ago.  I've always loved stories about Persephone and Demeter and though this is about Snow White, it also ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13546682">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Tanith Lee is a little different than reading other modern-day authors. Her stories are replete with psychological undertones, more Jungian than Freudian, although they also rely heavily on the sensuous side. There is a dark and obscure tone to her stories that reveals the feminine mystique ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55379132">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A retelling of Snow White with some Demeter and Persephone thrown in for kicks. Creepy and intriguing as hell. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book really impressed me. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, a radically different retelling of the Snow White fairy tale. It was very dark and sensual and held my interest through the end.]]></body>
    
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