Join us for our May book club discussion of Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust. This month’s title is a standalone young adult fantasy retelling of the fairy tales “Snow White” and “The Snow Queen.”
From the Publisher:
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.
This discussion is part of our our Ten Years of Girls in Capes Book Club at Main Point Books celebration in 2024. Girls Made of Snow and Glass was originally part of our 2018 book club lineup.
Meet us in person at Main Point Books on May 18 at 4 p.m. Eastern for this book discussion by RSVPing via Facebook Events. Please visit Main Point Books online to order your copy of Girls Made of Snow and Glass or Bashardoust’s other speculative novels for delivery or in-store pickup.
