With its melancholy shading, Lee's new twist on an old tale is sure to engage fans of dark fantasy. This is by no means a light read, but is in its darkness one aching with depth and truth. White as Snow In a novel-length tale of dark fantasy based on the fairy tale Snow White, Arpazia and her unwanted daughter, Coira, conceived in violence. Lee casts the evil queen in a sympathetic light, depicting her as a tortured soul who in later years begins to question her dark fate. Tanith Lee mesmerizes with her use of imagery and symbolism and makes this retelling of 'Snow White' fresh and vibrant, dark and disturbing. She later bears him a girl, Candacis, whom she immediately shuns as an incarnation of evil, mumbling death spells as the infant tries to suckle her. Draco forces Arpazia to travel with him and his barbaric army. Soon after he has her sister, Lilca, hanged because Lilca betrayed the castle. The evil queen, Arpazia, first appears as an innocent princess of 14, who is terrified when Draco, a rising new leader, conquers her father's castle and rapes her. Drawing on the sex and violence implicit in the original fairy tale, Lee gives a modern, introspective angle to the classic story. Tanith Lee mesmerizes with her use of imagery and symbolism and makes this retelling of 'Snow White' fresh and vibrant, dark and disturbing. Horror and fantasy veteran Lee, author of such adult fairy tale collections as Red as Blood and Forests of the Night, offers an enticingly dark and seductive reworking of ""Snow White"" that echoes the macabre ambience of the Brothers Grimm.
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