Book Info
Snow White Sorrow
by Cameron Jace
Publication Date: May 20th, 2013
What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?
Sixteen year old Loki Blackstar is no Prince Charming. His mother is a ghost. His only friend is a red Cadillac that talks to him through the radio. He looks like an Angel but acts like jerk. No wonder he has been banned from Heaven, which is the least of his troubles. Loki needs a job to pay for school and support himself.
Still, Loki has a rare gift: He is a Dreamhunter. One of the few in the world who can hunt and kill immortal demons in their dreams so they never wake up again.
When Loki is sent to kill a sixteen-year-old vampire girl the locals call Snow White Sorrow, he is pulled into a magical but dangerous world. The locals believe the monster to be Snow White.
The real Snow White... living in the ruins of an ancient castle in a small town. She is described as horribly beautiful, terrifyingly enchanting, and wickedly lovely.
What he finds instead is a beautiful monster girl filled with rage and hurt, who has an epic untold story to tell of things such like why the Brothers Grimm altered the fairy tale, who the Evil Queen really is, where the mirror came from, and who possessed it.
Snow White has killed every person who has dared come near the castle where she once lived with the queen. Mysteriously, she lets Loki live, and whispers two words in his ears; two words that will change his life forever.
Excerpt
Dear Wilhelm Carl Grimm,
She is not that giddy, naïve, and helpless princess she pretends to
be. Please don’t let her fool you with her innocence if you see her sing to the
birds in the forest. Resist her charm from bringing joyful tears to your eyes,
and shield yourself from her devious beauty before she deceives you into
wanting to kiss her awake. It'll be a kiss of death. Your death. That’s
how she fooled the Huntsman, Prince Charming, and me, her birth mother.
I still remember the original script of the fairy tale, the one you
wrote in 1812. It clearly stated that she was my own flesh and blood daughter.
I don’t have the slightest idea why you altered it fifty years later.
What was the point of turning me into an evil, narcissistic, and
heartless stepmother, blinded by jealousy and envy of the young princess?
For years, I have been looking forward to telling you the truth about
her, but you were impossible to reach.
I am glad I found your brother, Jacob. He told me that you wanted to
tone the stories down so children could sleep better at night, instead of
having nightmares about the Queen who sought to eat her daughter’s heart and
liver.
Shame on you, Wilhelm.
You, of all authors, knew why I wanted to kill her. My actions were
justified. I was trying to save my kingdom from her wrath, before everything we
loved was destined to an end. The same way you had to rewrite the true
fairytales after cursing us, so the War of Sorrows would end forever after.
Night after night, and year after year, parents fed their children
false bedtime stories, until your lies grew into inescapable memories. Your
happily ever after lies, Wilhelm, shaped the so called fairy tale world.
I wondered why you didn’t burn the original scripts, instead of
rewriting them. You must have figured out that sooner or later someone would
dig up the truth and expose you. Altering it was the smarter solution. You let
children believe that the bites were resurrecting kisses, and that torturing
glass coffins were made for sleeping beauties, waiting for a prince to come and
kiss them awake.
A wise man once said that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was
convincing the world he was someone else. You did the same with us, Wilhelm.
You turned us into pastiches of the immortals that we really are, and made it
harder for us if wanted to persuade the world otherwise.
I know that you did it to save us from her. And I appreciate
how you concealed our real names, or we would have ended up like
Rumpelstiltskin, tortured by those who knew of his real name.
But sometimes, I can’t help but wonder why no one ever questioned why
I was called the Evil Queen, and why I was never given a real name in
the books.
Was I so superficial to the world, so stereotypical and mundane? Why
was I treated as if I were the monster of the week?
You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to
hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me.
If I tell those who detest me about the true nature of their little
princess, would they ever care about me half as much as they care about her?
I know that deep inside, they adore me. They like the way I talk,
walk, dress, and even the way I kill.
They are just afraid to admit how much they love me. I am the Snow
White Queen, strong enough that I don’t need anyone’s pity or love, because I
am loved by the greatest and most majestic heart in the world:
Mine.
