Stealing Snow

Danielle Paige

Sep 2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing

About this ebook

Seventeen-year-old Snow lives within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate New York. Deep down, she knows she doesn't belong there, but she has no memory of life outside, except for the strangest dreams. And then a mysterious, handsome man, an orderly in the hospital, opens a door – and Snow knows that she has to leave ...
She finds herself in icy Algid, her true home, with witches, thieves, and a strangely alluring boy named Kai. As secret after secret is revealed, Snow discovers that she is on the run from a royal lineage she's destined to inherit, a father more powerful and ruthless than she could have imagined, and choices of the heart that could change everything. Heroine or villain, queen or broken girl, frozen heart or true love, Snow must choose her fate ...
A wonderfully icy fantastical romance, with a strong heroine choosing her own destiny, Danielle Paige's irresistibly page-turning Snow Queen is like Maleficent and Frozen all grown up.

Ratings and reviews

DNF at 42% Imagine one of those old time-y movies, where the projector showed you scenes after scenes in a series of pictures. They worked, right? Well, Stealing Snow can best be described as one of those movies, with a LOT of these connecting images missing. POOF. There were a LOT of things wrong with this book but most of all, it was just MEH. I didn’t feel ANYTHING, the only thing this GREAT prophesised princess cared about all the boys in her love square and, well MEH. Stealing Snow felt like a very rough first draft, with so many things missing like well: 1. EMOTIONS 2. The denial curve that you’re a Snow Princess whose father wants to kill her not a mental patient 3. ACTUAL BRAINS and not just pining over MULTIPLE boys 4. The Learning Curve with magic (IT WAS SO FAST) Moreover, the book was so VAGUE. The Mirrors randomly become portals, then there were frozen people, the Snow Wolves and a River Witch and WHAT WAS HAPPENING. I’ve been starting and stopping this book for months now, and I finally think it’s time to put it behind me. I just wish the story was more concrete. 1 star.

Regardless of the bad reviews I've seen here and of the fact that the book was vague on certain things, I very much enjoyed it. I find it interesting that one person can have so many love posibilities instead of the usual and boring (1 person on the horizon). It's also interesting to find a heroine who is darker and less interested in her duty than the usual protagonist. All in all, it was an exciting and unpredictable reading experience and I am looking forward to the next book.

About the author

Danielle Paige is a graduate of Columbia University and the author of the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series: Dorothy Must Die, The Wicked Will Rise and four prequel novellas. Before turning to young adult literature, she worked in the television industry, where she received a Writers Guild of America Award and was nominated for several Daytime Emmys. She currently lives in New York City.

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