Helpful Score: 2
I read this because Neil Gaiman recommended it, plus I've always been interested in the story of Snow White and Rose Red. This story is a very interesting view on womanhood and the roles women play in life.
Liga, the perfect Mother figure, creates a perfect world for herself and her daughters. White is the sweet, demure one, and Red is the wild inquisitive one. There is both the perfect mother represented as well as the scholarly woman and the ancient witch woman.
However, the over arching moral seems to say that nothing perfect can last, and despite a mother's best efforts, nothing she tries to do is right for her daughter's growing up. And she'll never find completion.
While everyone's stories are interesting and wind together in creative ways, I was overall unsatisfied with how the story ends. Liga, the character we start with, has an abrupt and unsatisfying ending. And many of the characters, even her daughters, seem to be secondary to her story.
Liga, the perfect Mother figure, creates a perfect world for herself and her daughters. White is the sweet, demure one, and Red is the wild inquisitive one. There is both the perfect mother represented as well as the scholarly woman and the ancient witch woman.
However, the over arching moral seems to say that nothing perfect can last, and despite a mother's best efforts, nothing she tries to do is right for her daughter's growing up. And she'll never find completion.
While everyone's stories are interesting and wind together in creative ways, I was overall unsatisfied with how the story ends. Liga, the character we start with, has an abrupt and unsatisfying ending. And many of the characters, even her daughters, seem to be secondary to her story.
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