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Poisoned

By: Jennifer Donnelly
Narrated by: Helen Duff
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Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow, and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her - beautiful she may be, but too weak and foolish to reign. And Sophie believes her, as she believes all the things that have been said about her - all the poisonous words people use to keep girls like her from becoming too powerful, too strong.

When the huntsman carries out his orders of killing Sophie, she finds a fire burning inside her that will not be extinguished, and sets off to reclaim what was taken from her.

Jennifer Donnelly turns her feminist eye to this most delicious of fairy tales and shows Snow White as she's never been seen before. Fantasy Literature & Fiction Magic Science Fiction & Fantasy Fiction
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I really enjoyed this story but the narrator .... EERRRRGGGG!!!!
I don't understand this narrator choice at all. To start with, the narrator in the book is the huntsman. A man. So to have a female narrator for me just didn't make sense. Secondly, the narrator reads it at such a slow tempo I had to speed it up to 1.4 speed just for it to be read at a normal pace for me. I don't know why she drags all the words out so slowly but it drove me nuts. It almost killed the story for me until I found out that I could increase the speed on the Audible app.

The story is great though. I love the retelling of fairy tales and this is a really good one.

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