Book Review: Slipper in the Snow (Slipper in the Snow - Part 1)
Slipper in the Snow (Slipper in the Snow - Part 1) by Alice Ivinya
4 stars
Category: Young Adult
Note: Short Serial. I obtained a free copy via the author’s newsletter.
Summary: Prince Simeon’s mother is holding a ball to encourage her son to choose a bride before his father dies from an illness. But Simeon finds most women to be just interested in his title and their flirting to be fake and forced. During the ball, he meets a lady with blue hair who can’t speak. She takes him into the bowels of the palace where she leads him to a plot against the crown.
Comments: There is plenty of action and mystery in this very short section of a four-part serial. It ends on a to-be-continued note (though not really a cliffhanger). Think Cinderella meets The Little Mermaid, and, yes, I’m a sucker for fairy tale retellings and I liked the melding of the two stories. For a short, this is detailed in its setting descriptions and descriptions of action. But it never really broadened the prince to be more than the basic Cinderella prince and the girl didn’t really have any personality either beyond being mysterious and unknown, so I never really got emotionally attached to either of them. The prince was gaga over the girl and I never really saw why he was attracted to her. He was just entranced by her blue hair from what I could tell, but that normally wouldn’t be enough to enrapture a guy like that. And I was rather bored with the plot against the crown. I think I needed more fantasy elements. There wasn’t really anything in this section that was outside the realm of could actually happen.
4 stars
Category: Young Adult
Note: Short Serial. I obtained a free copy via the author’s newsletter.
Summary: Prince Simeon’s mother is holding a ball to encourage her son to choose a bride before his father dies from an illness. But Simeon finds most women to be just interested in his title and their flirting to be fake and forced. During the ball, he meets a lady with blue hair who can’t speak. She takes him into the bowels of the palace where she leads him to a plot against the crown.
Comments: There is plenty of action and mystery in this very short section of a four-part serial. It ends on a to-be-continued note (though not really a cliffhanger). Think Cinderella meets The Little Mermaid, and, yes, I’m a sucker for fairy tale retellings and I liked the melding of the two stories. For a short, this is detailed in its setting descriptions and descriptions of action. But it never really broadened the prince to be more than the basic Cinderella prince and the girl didn’t really have any personality either beyond being mysterious and unknown, so I never really got emotionally attached to either of them. The prince was gaga over the girl and I never really saw why he was attracted to her. He was just entranced by her blue hair from what I could tell, but that normally wouldn’t be enough to enrapture a guy like that. And I was rather bored with the plot against the crown. I think I needed more fantasy elements. There wasn’t really anything in this section that was outside the realm of could actually happen.
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