Her droids are top notch, and she's made Mining Settlement Forty-Two top notch due to her inventions. She's great at fixing mechanical things, and earns extra shares through cage fighting. She's been hiding on Thanda for years, ingraining herself in the local community. I read this practically in one sitting!Įssie is hiding a dark, deadly secret. The twists in the well-known Snow White story are far from traditonal, and the story was engaging and hard to put down. How tragic that I never read it sooner! I really enjoyed the unique world and Essie is such a great, spunky character. (And honestly? STITCHING SNOW is nothing like it, so don't have that fear! Yes, both Essie and Cinder are good at fixing mechanical things, and both are set in space, but the two books are so different from one another!) I had it sitting in my TBR pile for most of the year and never had a chance to get to it until last month. I was going to read it, then I heard someone complaining it was too much like Marissa Meyer's CINDER, and it threw me off.

Kat started reading it right away and loved it.

Kat and I picked this up at BEA, where the ARC was clearly listing the book as a fairy tale retelling. When I first heard about it and saw the apple on the cover paired with the word 'Snow,' I went, 'Oh, a fairy tale?' Then I read the summary, and it sounded like a big sci-fi story that wasn't about a fairy tale at all, so.I kind of forgot about it. I've experienced many different emotions with STITCHING SNOW, the debut novel from R.C.

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis