Mirrored
By Alex Flinn
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Personal Rating: 8/10

To Violet--ugly and bullied--beauty seems to be the key to happiness. And with the help of a witch, Violet gets what she wants most in the world, to be beautiful. To Celine, her beauty us a curse. Especially with a stepmother who is jealous of her looks. But beauty is only skin deep, and Violet and Celine find their lives mirrored in many ways.

This book is a modern retelling of Snow White. An idea that isn't incredibly original, but I thought that Alex Flinn did a wonderful job telling the story and making it unique. She is also the author of Beastly which is a Beauty and the Beast retelling and one of my favorite fairy tale books.

One aspect of this book that was really interesting and unique, is that it is written in three parts and three perspectives, with the the villain's story told first. I really loved this because it really added an interesting dynamic to the rest of the story. It make it hard to hate the villain when her backstory was the first thing I read. Also, the love interest in this book was really unique. This is the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and in this case the dwarfs are a wonderful family of littler people. The love interest in this story is actually one of he dwarfs, and I loved it. He is such an interesting and fun character.

As far as fairy tale retellings go, this one was a winner. Slightly cheese and overdone at parts, but the story and characters where actually really enjoyable.