Review: After happily ever after
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2013
'Once upon a time.....' - The classic start to all the fairy stories we have grown up with. And of course we have the classic ending - 'and they lived happily ever after'.But what's happens after the 'happily ever after'?This book gives us an insight into what life could have been like for Snow White when she is older, a widow, and mother of the bride.The way this author has turned the popular children's fairy tale into an adult fairy tale is amazing. I read this book in one sitting, desperate to know more.Queen Snow White is in a deep depression following the loss of her beloved Prince Charming. Nothing can get her out of it, even the upcoming wedding of her daughter, Princess Raven.Attempting to find somewhere quiet she stumbles upon a room she hasn't visited in years. In that room she finds the magic mirror. She remembers well that this mirror almost caused her downfall, yet she feels compelled to converse with the mirror.The mirror begins showing her, and the reader, various moments in her past. Part of the reason this is a book for adults is due to the violence she is shown to go through at the hands of her stepmother.The idea of this book is to show Queen Snow White that she has a lot to be grateful for, she has led a life worth living, one not worth forgetting about due to grief. There is quite a moral there for us all if we give it the chance.I loved this book and highly recommend it.