![]() I was expecting vampires based on the name Lonely Ones, to be honest, but half animals works for me too I guess. Alan, who is friends with Jessica, realizes that her life is in danger and helps her escape to London, where she joins a group of half-animals called the Lonely Ones. Here, my issue is that this whole sequence of events has very little to do with anything - it would have been neater to just stick with the original notion, that the stepmother is threatened by her and tries to hide her in plain sight. Jessica is mostly ignored and occasionally taught until she hits puberty and then BAM, rape threat from a visiting count that leads to Jessica being shamed forever and forced to work. The science is super vague and weird - a fiddler named Alan is enchanted via a necklace that resonates with his brainwaves, so, science? idk. So desperate she reaches through what science there is at the time straight through to magic. ![]() Snow is originally called Jessica, is the daughter of a Welsh duke, and her stepmother is desperate to have children of her own. I read it in about three hours, and I enjoyed reading it a lot, but I have read a lot of fairy tale retellings I enjoyed a lot more. ![]() ![]() That said, I don't necessarily think they're good. ![]() Especially Cameron Dokey's deliciously cheesy entries in it. This gimmick is basically a series of unconnected fairy tale retellings. Snow by Tracy Lynn is part of a larger Simon Pulse fairy tale retelling marketing gimmick. ![]()
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