Melissa Bashardoust's acclaimed debut novel Girls Made of Snow and Glass is Snow White as it's
never been told before...a feminist fantasy fairy tale not to be missed (BookPage)! Utterly
superb. -ALA Booklist starred review Dark fantastical hauntingly evocative. -Kirkus Reviews
starred review An empowering and progressive original retelling. -SLJ starred review
Sixteen-year-old Mina is motherless her magician father is vicious and her silent heart has
never beat with love for anyone-has never beat at all in fact but she'd always thought that
fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of
glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time Mina forms a
plan: win the king's heart with her beauty become queen and finally know love. The only catch
is that she'll have to become a stepmother. Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late
mother and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen's
image at her father's order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh Lynet would rather
be like her fierce and regal stepmother Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet
queen of the southern territories displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with
something like hatred and Lynet must decide what to do-and who to be-to win back the only
mother she's ever known...or else defeat her once and for all. Entwining the stories of both
Lynet and Mina in the past and present Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of
two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. Only one can win all while the other must
lose everything-unless both can find a way to reshape themselves and their story.
