It is only after he has dragged Coira far from her home that Cirpoz learns that his victim is the king’s daughter. She is all too naive and is easy prey for Cirpoz, a huntsman bribed by the queen to dispose of the girl. The daughter, Coira, yearns for motherly love she will never have. Arpazia sinks ever deeper into depression and madness. In turns indifferent to and then hostile to her child, Arpazia leaves rearing the girl to servants. As in, affairs with accommodating women elsewhere.Īrpazia sees her unwanted baby as curse made flesh. When the product of rape is a mere girl child, Draco sets mother and daughter aside to focus on more important affairs. Pious Draco then insists on marrying his victim as a sop to his Christian morals. Spared the general massacre after her father’s castle falls to would-be king Draco, Arpazia is raped by the conqueror. “Unrelentingly grim” may be too upbeat a description. In White as Snow, Lee sets aside modern interpretations of the Snow White story, framed to offer Depression Era Americans some solace in poverty, to draw from the original source material. The result? Published by Ace and then Tor, Windling’s Fairy Tales was a series of novels that (retold) and (reinterpreted) traditional fairy tales Tanith Lee’s 2000 stand-alone White as Snow was the eighth and second-to-last entry in Terri Wildling’s Fairy Tales series.
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