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Poisoned
- Author
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrator
- Helen Duff
- Publisher
- Hot Key Books
- Publish Date
- 20 October 2020
- Run Time
- 13 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Fantasy, Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
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.
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 4.0
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4.0 4.0
Loved the book - complex story line based on all the ‘fairy’ stories I loved as a child, with a strong twist of ‘time for a change!’ Maybe shouldn’t have read it immediately after stepsister - I started to get a sense of the message being over-stated, even a bit preachy. But if I’d been less hungry for more, I think that would have not occurred to me.
Recommended reading for teenagers of all ages (I’m 74).jo tait 2023-10-17
Details
- Author
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrator
- Helen Duff
- Duration
- 13 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 October 2020
- ISBN
- 9781471409547
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Hot Key Books
- Genre
- Fantasy, Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
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.
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