White as Frost: A Dark Elf Fairytale

by Anthea Sharp

Overview

From USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp, a fantasy fairy-tale weaving elements of Snow White & Rose Red with romance, magic, and dangerous secrets that will destroy a kingdom.

Two sisters. One enchanted forest. And a hidden destiny that could doom them both...

All her life, Rose has yearned for magic - especially when she arrives at the castle beside the Darkwood and discovers that her new stepsister, Princess Neeve, is hiding strange powers of her own.

Burning with curiosity, Rose follows her stepsister into the enchanted shadows beneath the trees. There, she finds Thorne, the Dark Elf guardian of the woods, who saves her from dangerous creatures and binds her to the Darkwood, forbidding her to speak of its mysteries.

Still, Rose continues to risk everything in her quest for answers, until the day she steals into the depths of the forest and discovers the most perilous secret of all...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680131437
Publisher:	Fiddlehead Press
Publication date:	05/04/2021
Series:	The Darkwood Trilogy , #1
Edition description:	Special Hardback ed.
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

USA Today bestselling author of YA fantasy, Anthea Sharp grew up on fairy tales and computer games, melding the two in her award-winning, bestselling Feyland series, which has sold over 150k copies worldwide. In addition to the fae fantasy/cyberpunk mashup of Feyland, she also writes Victorian Spacepunk, and fairytale-inspired portal fantasy, including the acclaimed Darkwood Chronicles. Her books have won awards and topped bestseller lists, and garnered over a million reads at Wattpad. Her short fiction has appeared in Fiction River, DAW anthologies, The Future Chronicles, and Beyond The Stars: At Galaxy's edge, as well as many other publications.

Editorial Reviews

07/26/2021

After her mother weds the king of Raine, Rosaline, 13, who has “sun-bronzed skin and kinky red-gold hair,” relocates from the “grand capital of Parnese” on the Continent to the island kingdom. Waiting there is a sullen, pale, red-lipped stepsister, Neeve, also 13; a mysterious forest; and a castle full of secrets. Rose’s love of adventure tales spills over into her inquisitive nature, and it isn’t long before she’s spying on Neeve as Neeve slips from the castle walls and into the Darkwood outside them. Home to magical and dangerous creatures, the Darkwood is protected by Thorne, a pale-skinned Dark Elf from Elfhame, but the woods seem to distrust Rose and attempt harm until Thorne takes her under his protection; with Neeve, they begin exploring Rose’s possible powers. The sisters’ friendship grows slowly, however, and when Kian, a blond, blue-eyed Fiordland prince arrives, tensions mount. Characterizations feel frustratingly vague, and plot points lack resolution by the cliffhanger ending. Still, Sharp interweaves welcome allusions to “Snow-White and Red-Rose” and adapts other fairy elements creatively; the world of the Darkwood and its denizens is distinctly drawn in this fantastical series starter. Ages 13–up. (Self-published)

Publishers Weekly