Snow White Sorrow Book Blitz!
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.
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.
Coming February 2013
Until December 13th, the prequel pack (all 6) for Kindle is only $0.99!
This
Grimm Diaries Prequels are a number of short books in the form
of epistolary diary entries. The diaries are more of teasers for the
upcoming series: The Grimm Diaries, allowing you to get a glimpse of
what to expect of the series. The 6 diaries are told by The Evil Queen,
Peter Pan, Little Red Riding Hood, the Devil, Prince Charming, and Alice
Grimm
Author
Warning: these Grimm Prequels are snap shots of a magical land
you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples.
Once you taste them, you will never see fairy tales in the same light
again.
Excerpt from prequel Snow White Blood Red
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.
Cameron Jace:
Wonderlander,
Neverlander, Unicorn-chaser, enchanter, musician, survived a coma,
& totally awesome. Sometimes I tell stories. Always luv the little
monsters I write young adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and
science fiction mostly. The Grimm Diaries series is a seven book saga
that deals with retellings of fairy tales from a young adult POV - it
connects most of the fairy tales together and claims to be the truth
about fairy tales. I live in San Fransisco and seriously think
circles are way cooler than triangles.
~Giveaway~
Kindle Prequel 6 Pack! INT
I picked up the prequels a while ago because they looked so good. This is one I am definitely going to be picking up and trying, I love the synopsis and the cover!
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ReplyDeleteI'm very intrigued by the excerpt! I think this book sounds brilliant. Hopefully it will deliver. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing, Jennifer!
I've never been big on vampires, however, this does sound very interesting. I just went off and bought the bundle.
ReplyDeleteI like this twist on snow white!
ReplyDeleteI love it when authors do little twists on the normal. I really liked the excerpt. Gives you a new perspective on the Evil Queen.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds very interesting! I love the excerpt! Thank you for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteThe book sounds interesting! Definitely looking forward to it!
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ReplyDeleteThe book sounds really cool. Really hope to read it soon. Thanks for the give away
ReplyDeleteThe excerpt was an interesting read. Eager to read more.
ReplyDeleteWOW! Rocking excerpt and blurb! Had to show it to my teen who thought it looked great (that IS saying a lot! My teen LOVES to read but she is VERY picky what she reads)!
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