With her black hair, red lips, and lily-white skin, Summer is as beautiful as her father's garden. And her life in the mountains of West Virginia seems like a fairy tale; her parents sing and dance with her, Cousin Nancy dotes on her, and she is about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking Summer's mama with him, Summer's fairy-tale life turns grim. Things get even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama puts up a pretty face, but Summer suspects she's up to no good - and is afraid she's powerless to stop her. This Snow White tale filled with magic and intrigue during the early twentieth century in Appalachia will be hard to forget.
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This one was ok. I felt like she kept trying to manufacture scariness where there was none, and also the buildup was very long compared to the moderately quick denoument. I shouldn't hold it up to Sister Light, Sister Dark in my mind, but I did, and it didn't make the grade. I did like the setting, though it felt sort of incidental and didn't really impact her that much.
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