Friday, June 7, 2013

The Unofficial Addiction Blog Tour: Snow White Sorrow by Cameron Jace





Book Addicts!

We are thrilled to be part of the book blast for Cameron Jace's new book: Snow White Sorrow. We are really happy to host this blog tour. Because we are really excited about this book, we have an excerpt for you from the book and a giveaway!



Title: Snow White Sorrow
Author: Cameron Jace
Series: The Grimm Diaries #1
Publication: May 30th 2013
Genre: YA Paranormal/Fairy Tale







What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?

Sixteen year old Loki Blackstar is no Prince Charming. His mother isghost. His only friend is a red Cadillac that talks to him through the radio. He looks like an Angel but acts like jerk. No wonder he has been banned from Heaven, which is the least of his troubles. Loki needs a job to pay for school and support himself. Still, Loki has a rare gift: He is a Dreamhunter. One of the few in the world who can hunt and kill immortal demons in their dreams so they never wake up again. When Loki is sent to kill a sixteen-year-old vampire girl the locals call Snow White Sorrow, he is pulled into a magical but dangerous world. The locals believe the monster to be Snow White. 
The real Snow White... living in the ruins of an ancient castle in a small town. She is described as horribly beautiful, terrifyingly enchanting, and wickedly lovely.
What he finds instead is a beautiful monster girl filled with rage and hurt, who has an epic untold story to tell of things such like why the Brothers Grimm altered the fairy tale, who the Evil Queen really iswhere the mirror came from, and who possessed it.
Snow White has killed every person who has dared come near the castle where she once lived with the queen. Mysteriously, she lets Loki live, and whispers two words in his ears; two words that will change his life forever.








Dear Wilhelm Carl Grimm,


She is not that giddy, naïve, and helpless princess she pretends to be. Please don’t let her fool you with her innocence if you see her sing to the birds in the forest. Resist her charm from bringing joyful tears to your eyes, and shield yourself from her devious beauty before she deceives you into wanting to kiss her awake. It'll  be a kiss of death. Your death. That’s how she fooled the Huntsman, Prince Charming, and me, her birth mother.
I still remember the original script of the fairy tale, the one you wrote in 1812. It clearly stated that she was my own flesh and blood daughter. I don’t have the slightest idea why you altered it fifty years later.
What was the point of turning me into an evil, narcissistic, and heartless stepmother, blinded by jealousy and envy of the young princess?
For years, I have been looking forward to telling you the truth about her, but you were impossible to reach.
I am glad I found your brother, Jacob. He told me that you wanted to tone the stories down so children could sleep better at night, instead of having nightmares about the Queen who sought to eat her daughter’s heart and liver.
Shame on you, Wilhelm.
You, of all authors, knew why I wanted to kill her. My actions were justified. I was trying to save my kingdom from her wrath, before everything we loved was destined to an end. The same way you had to rewrite the true fairytales after cursing us, so the War of Sorrows would end forever after.
Night after night, and year after year, parents fed their children false bedtime stories, until your lies grew into inescapable memories. Your happily ever after lies, Wilhelm, shaped the so called fairy tale world.
I wondered why you didn’t burn the original scripts, instead of rewriting them. You must have figured out that sooner or later someone would dig up the truth and expose you. Altering it was the smarter solution. You let children believe that the bites were resurrecting kisses, and that torturing glass coffins were made for sleeping beauties, waiting for a prince to come and kiss them awake.
A wise man once said that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was someone else. You did the same with us, Wilhelm. You turned us into pastiches of the immortals that we really are, and made it harder for us if wanted to persuade the world otherwise.
I know that you did it to save us from her. And I appreciate how you concealed our real names, or we would have ended up like Rumpelstiltskin, tortured by those who knew of his real name.
But sometimes, I can’t help but wonder why no one ever questioned why I was called the Evil Queen, and why I was never given a real name in the books.
Was I so superficial to the world, so stereotypical and mundane? Why was I treated as if I were the monster of the week?
You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me.
If I tell those who detest me about the true nature of their little princess, would they ever care about me half as much as they care about her?
I know that deep inside, they adore me. They like the way I talk, walk, dress, and even the way I kill.
They are just afraid to admit how much they love me. I am the Snow White Queen, strong enough that I don’t need anyone’s pity or love, because I am loved by the greatest and most majestic heart in the world:
Mine.




       





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7 comments:

  1. This book sounds very intriguing and I would love to read it. I added it to my to-read shelf on Goodreads. I hope to have an opportunity to get it soon, as that last line in the "About the Book" section has left me wanting more right now! lol!!

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    1. Jennifer, we're really glad that you liked the book as much as we did. It looks pretty interesting and besides, Snow White evil? This is a to-read for sure!
      Thank you so much for stopping by our website ;)

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  2. It is so great to see a male author!! I am intrigued and would LOVE to read this book!

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    1. Oh! I did not see the question! I think Snow White is a loving and gentle soul. She has been in every telling of her story that I have seen.

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    2. Can't wait to read this book! It looks very interesting and I love the book cover. I think Snow White has her reasons for killing people who enters the castle and I think that deep inside Snow White is loving and enchanting.

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    3. Crystal, it looks pretty interesting this book. Like we have said to Jennifer, we need to read this book. Snow white being a monster? An evil one? That's new. We need to read it! Besides we are madly in love with everything that have the name Grimm.
      Hope you're right with Snow White, too. We'll love to see that she redeems herself =)
      thank you so much for stopping by our website ;)

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    4. Elijah, it is true that the cover of the book is pretty cool. We were hooked at first, because of it and then we read all about Snow White and said hell, yeah, hahaha
      We think like you and hope Snow White is, at least in the end, loving and enchanting! ^^
      Thank you so much for stopping by our website =)

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