The Wildest Things by Andrea Hannah

Thank you to Netgalley for an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review. I’ve had my eye on this one for a while, and was so excited when I got approved for an arc! It’s a sapphic dark fantasy retelling of Snow White. While I did enjoy this book, it took me a bit to get through it. The magic system was well developed, if not a little confusing at times. Snow White is finally awake…twenty years after she bit into the infamous poisoned apple. When Snow’s glass coffin shatters unexpectedly, she awakens to find a world much different than the one she left. Her kingdom and the rest of the land has been ravaged by the Blight. The animals are now mutated and wicked, the soil is seeped with toxins, and an evil girl sits on the throne of Roanfrost. If Snow wants to reclaim her rightful place as Princess and Seasonkeeper, she’ll have to traverse through a decaying land filled with monstrous beasts, all while being hunted by creatures she once called friends. And the enchanting Queen Illiana, the daughter of the last evil queen, will stop at nothing to rip Snow’s heart right from her chest. All in all, a pretty good story filled with poison, sapphic yearning, and a once demure princess who is now learning to release her darker impulses.