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Mirror Mirror: A Novel
by Gregory Maguire
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Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a wicked pope -- no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care -- so to speak -- of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well ... A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White -- and has a truth and beauty all its own.
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| Best book since Wicked |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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With this book Maguire returns to recreating an amazing world with an amazing history you can believe. I really thought it was his best book since Wicked
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| Interesting Take |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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This was a pretty good read overall. I thought the development with the gooseboy was an interesting take, but for the most part it was rather slow reading. I thought the characters were all full and believable, albeit eccentric like most of Maguire's creations.
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| Disappointing and Crude |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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(This review is based on the audio CD version of this book. It is my understanding that the audio is a word for word representation of the book.)
I borrowed the audio CD of this book from the library to enjoy on a long car trip. After receiving many recomendations to read one of the author's other books ("Wicked"), I thought this might be a good substitute since "Wicked" was not available and the premise (re-telling of the fairy tale, with a twist) was the same.
I couldn't have been more disappointed.
I'd like to be able to give credit to the author at least for his creativity, but I cannot give much. The text was full of unnecessary crudity and the plot was very weak. The ending was a complete disappointment - there pretty much wasn't an ending at all.
The author could have done so much more with this story. I continued to listen to the CDs in hope that the story would get better and would lead to some kind of great ending. Instead, the tale continued with gross and disturbing references that in no way added to the plot or character development, and the story went nowhere.
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| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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It took about two weeks for the book to arrive. It came in almost new condition. A few of the pages were bent (like a page marker) but it came in very great condition. I would buy from this user again.
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| Good |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I agree this was a bit slow, but the writing was beautiful. When compared to the others by GM, it suffers somewhat, but if it was the only book he'd written I'd have been blown away.
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