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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 is
a ghost. 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 is, where 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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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!!
ReplyDeleteJennifer, 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!
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It is so great to see a male author!! I am intrigued and would LOVE to read this book!
ReplyDeleteOh! 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.
DeleteCan'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.
DeleteCrystal, 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.
DeleteHope you're right with Snow White, too. We'll love to see that she redeems herself =)
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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
DeleteWe think like you and hope Snow White is, at least in the end, loving and enchanting! ^^
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