A review by linaria
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

3.0

“There are worse things in the world to be than delicate. If you're delicate, it means no one has tried to break you.”

This was an interesting book. I think I'll settle on three stars because while there was nothing especially terrible about it, there wasn't really much I particularly enjoyed about it either. This I can definitely say may be attributed to two external factors, which I definitely must acknowledge could be contributing: I hate the snow white fairy tale and the whole book just gave me too many Frozen vibes.

So Lynet and Mina are both beautiful women who are close in age, despite being the fact that Mina is Lynet's stepmother. Mina lacks a literal heart since hers was replaced with glass by her evil father and Lynet was shaped from snow by her father. The book is a snow white retelling with a Frozen twist. The book shines in the characters and relationships and for reimagining the snow white tale.

The problem is, we definitely could have used more world-building, and a bit more help with the pacing - because parts of the book were slow. I honestly read this for the f/f relationship, but it takes such a backseat in the book, along with a lot of other 'side' stories, that I'm disappointed. While I realize that romance is perhaps not the most important part of the story, it was my favourite, so it's a shame there wasn't more of it.