num_pages: 384
description: Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale.Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless her magician father is vicious and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyonehas never beat at all in fact but shed always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time Mina forms a plan: win the kings heart with her beauty become queen and finally know love. The only catch is that shell have to become a stepmother.Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queens image at her fathers order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh Lynet would rather be like her fierce and regal stepmother Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet queen of the southern territories displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with something like hatred and Lynet must decide what to doand who to beto win back the only mother shes ever knownor else defeat her once and for all.Entwining the stories of both Lynet and Mina in the past and present Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. Only one can win all while the other must lose everythingunless both can find a way to reshape themselves and their story.
language: English
title: Girls Made of Snow and Glass
publisher: Flatiron Books