This will certainly ease the wait for readers anxious for Meyer’s next installment. Essie’s got the wit and strength to compete with any YA heroine, but it’s her conflicted feelings toward her father and her willingness to finally save herself that make her memorable. Lewis doesn’t sacrifice world-building for plot, either, deftly incorporating details about both the interplanetary conflicts and Essie’s history as the action moves swiftly along. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The pacing is lightning quick, with our planet-hopping heroes moving from one obstacle to the next, and while that may at first cause readers a bit of whiplash, it also allows the story to wrap up in one installment. : Stitching Snow (9781423185079) by Lewis, R.C. Several of the Snow White motifs are satisfyingly turned on their head here, and fans of Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder, BCCB 2/12, etc.) will feel right at home with the combination of sci-fi and fairy tale elements. Now Dane and his planet’s ruling council plan to use Essie to end Matthias’ reign of terror-whether she’s a willing participant or not. There Essie admits to being Princess Snow, whom everyone thought was kidnapped years ago, but who really ran away from King Matthias, her father and rapist, and Queen Olivia, her stepmother and attempted murderer. Her desire to help trumps her usual self-preservation instincts when a mysterious boy, Dane, crashes his spaceship near her home, and soon she finds herself kidnapped and brought to Candara, Dane’s home planet. For eight years, the frozen tundras of the planet Thanda have been Essie’s home, and the seventeen-year-old girl is mostly content to tinker with her seven drones and serve as impromptu mechanic for the local mines.

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis