The Wildest Things by Andrea Hannah
- fantasy
- young adult
- andrea hannah
- fairy tale stories
- 3 stars
- fairytale retellings
- fairy tales
- winter tbr
- cover lover
- book reviews
Title: The Wildest Things
Author: Andrea Hannah
Publisher: Wednesday Books 2025
Genre: YA Fantasy
Pages: 320
Rating: 3/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Fairytales - Snow White; Cover Lover - Palindrome (Author Name); Winter - Fairytale
Where I Got It: Library
*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.*
I was hoping for a fun dark fairy tale retelling with a sapphic twist. Instead, I got a plodding tale devoid of fun or adventure and definitely no sapphic relationship. My first book of 2026 was definitely a disappointment. I just couldn’t get behind Snow at all as a character. She was too naive for her own good even after the audience learns more about their world and the things she should figure out much more quickly than she does. The entire process of becoming a season keeper was just pretty boring. Nothing exciting to really hold my attention. And do not get me started on the fact that she never really interacts with the Queen’s daughter in person. I wanted so much more! The only thing that saved the book was the chapters told from the mirror’s POV. Those were at least interesting!
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