Illustrated Snow White Review

Snow White
by The Brothers Grimm, Illustrated: Camille Rose Garcia
Genre: Fairy Tale
Format: Hardcover, owned
Midnight Minute: Gorgeously illustrated edition of the original tale.
From Goodreads:

"Originating in seventeenth-century French Folklore, the story of Snow White has been one of the world's most memorable childhood tales. It is the story of an evil queen determined to do away with a girl-with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony- who threatens the queen's quest to remain the most beautiful in her kingdom. This new gift edition presents the unabridged version of the Grimms' tale, with an original interpretation by renowned artist Camille Rose Garcia that art-fully combines wit and dark romance."

Midnight Thoughts:

~ I thought I'd read the original The Brothers Grimm, but it turns out I've probably been lying to myself.  And to you, if I've ever told you I read the original Snow White.
~ Seriously, Snow White is a moron.  She falls for her evil Step-mother's tricks again and again.
~ The book definitely ends on a much crueler death for the step-monster.  It's morbid, disturbing and violent.  I am totally going to use this to traumatize any future Midnight kids I might have.
~ The illustrations are amazing, and it's why I bought it.  There it was, just staring at me from the bookshelf at Books-a-Million, begging to come home with me.  I couldn't just leave it there, now could I?
~ This would be a great read for a Readathon!  Plus, it looks fantastic!
~ The Prince in the graphic novel looks a bit like Snow White with a Fu Manchu mustache.  Not sure why the illustrator did that, but it's my only (minor) complaint. 

Timeless Characters:

The Evil Queen: step-monster, talks to mirrors, is NOT aging gracefully.
Snow White- beautiful, and moronic.
The Dwarves- suitably short and dwarf like.  They are a little sexist, and it leaves you with the impression that Snow White could be made very dirty in the hands of someone like E L James.
The Prince- likes riding through the forest and kissing beautiful corpses, proposes if they come to life... which I guess is a redeeming quality, but could be just a way of getting out of necrophiliac charges...
Snow White's Mom: dead, possibly a future hook-up of her son-in-law's since she meets his dating critera.
Snow White's Dad: marries an evil bitch, obviously passes on his super smart genes to his daughter.

Midnight Moment: 

In the Disney version of Snow White, the witch is killed by Mother Nature (aka, a lightening bolt that tumbles her off a cliff.  In the REAL version, Snow White makes her wear iron shoes, heated in red hot coals.  Then Snow's like "Dance, bitch, dance!", and the evil queen does.  Then she dies. And that's the happy every after. 

Stop The Clock:

Thank you, Brothers Grimm, for being so wicked!  I think fairy tales need their element of horror and morals.  The moral to Snow White is not to be obsessed so much with your looks, and treat your step children kindly so they don't grow up and kill you.  Lessons we could all use, no?

Camille Rose Garcia — Website |

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