The Wildest Things by Andrea Hannah

TL;DR: Probably just not for me.
Source: NetGalley, so many thanks to the publisher!

Plot: Snow White wakes up in what should be a horrific world and has to take it back… and ehh?
Characters: Ugh, my least favorite type of MC.
Setting: There was a lot of promise, but not a great execution.
Fantasy/Romance: The fantasy was fine, the romance must have been invisible to me.

Summary:

When her glass coffin unexpectedly shatters, Snow White awakens to anything but a dream. The land is rotting. The animals have mutated. In the twenty years that have passed since Snow bit into the poisoned apple, the kingdom of Roanfrost has transformed from a luscious wild land to a blight-ravaged nightmare. In search of answers and a way to restore her kingdom to its former glory, Snow sets out on a dangerous journey that will test the strength she never knew she had.

Friends will become foes.

New alliances will form.

The Queen with the blood red lips will stop at nothing to seize her power as well as her heart.

If Snow has any chance to survive and restore not only her kingdom, but all of Garedenne, her only option is to become the Seasonkeeper and access the life-giving magic that will heal the plague. But the path to becoming the Seasonkeeper is more treacherous than she could ever imagine—because the wild things have awakened and Snow’s darker impulses yearn to set them free.

Thoughts:

Ehhhh? That’s the most honest thoughts I have for you. I loved the idea of some of the horror elements here but for the most part I spent the whole time rolling my eyes at the main character. Snow wakes up in an admittedly scary version of her homeland but instead of pulling up her big girl panties and doing something about it, she spends the majority of the book whining.

This one had a premise I loved. But with an incredibly weak main character the story flops. She spends her time letting others do her work, and the chemistry we’re supposed to see with the Evil Queen’s daughter? Is it in the book? Did I miss it? Did it take a lunch when I was reading?

On the whole this was just aggressively ‘fine’. I wouldn’t recommend it, especially if you want any degree of horror or sapphic chemistry. Honestly I’m not sure where I would recommend it, but it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever read… so there is that?