Britney's review
Mirror Mirror: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
Britney's review
Mirror Mirror: A Novel by Gregory Maguire
Britney's review
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recommended for: fans of retold tales.
I find Gregory Maguire's books remarkably readable when I'm not plodding through Wicked or Son of a Witch. This one was his retelling of Snow White, utilizing Lucrezia Borgia as the evil queen, and he was quite successful (though Maguire was able to tap into my own fascination with the Borgias, which began after I was assigned the family for a paper I wrote in high school). The only strange part of the text was the characterization of the dwarfs, of which there are seven or eight or nine, and I had trouble figuring out what they were, exactly, though I suspect that was Maguire's intention.
Compared to the other books by the author, this was a notch below Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister but much better than his Oz books (just go se
Compared to the other books by the author, this was a notch below Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister but much better than his Oz books (just go se
