The Fairest Of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon

The Fairest Of Them All

Carolyn Turgeon

288 pages

Publisher: Touchstone

Release Date: August 6th

Don't get fooled by the beautiful cover of this incredible book. This is not a lovely fairy tale where everyone lives happily ever after and the evil queen ends up dead or being good. And it's not for sure the story about Rapunzel or Snow White that we all now. Because as you know, Rapunzel was not Snow White's step mom, but in this book she is.

We think that seeing the point of view of Rapunzel was much more fun that reading about a corny story about a princess waiting for prince Charming. Don't get me wrong, I love those corny stories, but being evil, in this story, is much more fun!

Reading about Rapunzel's story, you get an insight into her life. Why and howe she evolves from being that girl in the tower with the long, long hair ending up being the evil queen who want Snow White dead more than anything in her life.

At the beginning, you can see how Rapunzel was all innocent and trustful, letting in her a life a handsome Prince full of promises and beautiful words. She opens her heart to him and he ends up marrying another woman. So you can see how Rapunzel started hating the other woman and asking herself why not her. You even feel sorry for her. 

And it's not far after that when she gets what she wanted: the prince and the kingdom. Why not? Even the evil queens deserve a happy ending. But what Rapunzel can't get out of her head is that she's not the fairest of them all, so being the most beautiful of her kingdom becomes her first priority. That's where Snow White enters in the story. When Rapunzel asks the mirror who the fairest of them all is, what do you think it tells her? Not her, for sure. That's when the seed of evilness starts to grow in Rapunzel.

But that's not all. If we have to talk about differences from the original stories that make this book such a killer one, we have to talk about Snow White, too. We have read and seen in movies and TV shows, howe Snow White is the good and forgiving person that everyone tries to be, the saint that cannot be enticed by evil or would not dare doing or saying something considered bad or evil. As a normal person, this version of Snow White has her own character and personality and it's not so saint as every book/movie showed us. You even start, at some point in the story, understanding Rapunzel's hate for this girl. 

In general, the story was incredible, captivating, with a catching prologue and a strong plot. How Carolyn Turgeon did to create this awesome mix of fairy tales, escapes our knowledge, but we know one thing: she did a wonderful job. Bringing a dark touch to the fairy story that we know all so well, Carolyn created a story full of unraveling events and twists that were not expecting at all. AT ALL!

So what's our verdict? We loved this book! So much that we have to thank Carolyn to bring to our world this wonderful new story. So you need to read this book, Book Addicts. Because you are going to get hooked with this one.

Let the magic of Rapunzel and Snow White enter your shelves, Book Addicts, and let us know what you think about this book, because we are giving a five gorjuss dolls from our rating system. 

Our Playlist for The Fairest Of Them All:

Family Tree by Matthew West

Breath Of Life by Florence + The Machine

Born To Die by Lana del Rey

Down by Jason Walker

Run by Snow Patrol

Lonely Boy by The Black Keys

All Those Pretty Lights by Andrew Belle

A Little Piece Of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold

I Hate Everything About You by Three Days Grace

My Body by Young The Giant

Kill Of The Night by Gin Wigmore

All Fall Down by One Republic

Don't You Remember by Adele

Devil's Love Song by Howl Baby Howl

Fix You by Coldplay

Turning Tables by Adele

Begin Again by Taylor Swift

Echo by Jason Walker

Dead Hearts by Stars

Young And Beautiful by Lana Del Rey

Taylor Swift as Rapunzel

Ian Somerhalder as Prince Josef

Bailee Madison as Snow White

Julian Morris as Gilles

Read the interview with Carolyn about The Fairest Of Them All

Congrats Shelly Summers!!

You are the winner of a paperback copy of The Fairest Of Them All written by Carolyn Turgeon.

Hope you enjoy the book.

FFBC Ink by Amanda Sun: Express Yourself, Winner & Surprise!

Book Addicts,

We are sad and happy at the same time to tell you that our Fantastic Flying Book Club event of this month is over. We are sad because we are ending our first FFBC, however we're beyond happy to pick a winner for the paperback of Ink and to finally tell you all that Ink is NOW available in your stores!

We're thrilled with this now and we are eager to tell you who the winner is, but first... we promised some surprises!

For those who don't have read the other post, we have a section called express yourself where we express our feelings about the books we have read with gifs. More dramatic and gets to the point. And that's not an exception. So first...

What we think about Katie

What we think about Tomohiro

What we think about Jun

What we think about Satoshi

What we think about Yuki and Tanaka

What we think about the end of the book

We are really happy about this event and we couldn't have do it without our friend A Reading Nurse and without Amanda Sun.

Amanda helped us a lot with the interviews, the tweets and everything in the Fantastic Flying Book Club event.

We really had a lot of fun with this and talking with Anasheh from A Reading Nurse and keep an eye on us, Book Addicts, because this is definitely going to happen again! And Soon!

Without further hesitation, here are the results:

Thank you to all of you that were part of this giveaway. We had over 3000 entries for our first FFBC event and we're really happy.

We hope we'll have you in our next FFBC event =)

We promised a big surprise...

Well, since we're madly in love with this book, we wanted to spread the Ink Madness and it's our first Fantastic Flying Book Club event, we are not having one winner, but TWO!

Amanda talked in twitter about cake, but we didn't know how to send you the cake, in a good state and all that, but we had this! Another winner! What do you think? Still missing the cake? If that so email me, Patricia and i'll think of something to sending you a piece of my birthday cake! Yay!

I'm really happy to share my birthday with Ink ;)

For those who didn't won this giveaway, don't be sad! We'd be doing this next month =)

And if you're madly in love with Ink after our event, don't hesitate in reading it. It's a fantastic and marvelous book that would hooked you from the first page. And we're not the only ones who think this!

We really hope you had tons of fun like we did and hope to read more about you, Book Addicts, in our blog!