“I still don’t.” Essie is a rough, tough girl with a secret. The Summary: 'I didn’t want to go home,” I said simply. genetically engineered to look like her name.

After all, I could solve that one with a quick hour of dismantling work.Īnd not to mention, Jedi mind-control My surroundings went fuzzy, blurring with motion as something inside of me was yanked somewhere else. Dimwit chose that moment to spot-weld one of its feet to the deck.Īs usual, I didn’t include that infuriating bucket of a malfunction in my tally of problems. I hardly glanced at Olivia’s gift-a ruby-studded pendant in the shape of an apple I remembered her wearing a few times.But there are also spaceships, evil emperors, adorably clunky androids. “The one who helped her escape.”Ī knife in Kip’s hand, both of us staring at it, staring at each other…The indecision in his eyes fading only when he hands it to me. She haunted the edges of my earliest childhood memories. Crying never got me anything but a slap across the cheek from her. The oh-so-familiar elements of the classics are still there. It has a kick-ass heroine, a realistic romance (and not a hint of a love triangle to be found! Halle-fucking-lujah!). Of course, everyone has their own interpretation of a book, but for me, this book is Star Wars meet Snow White.

No, I have not gone off my rockers! Ok, I have, but that's beside the point. So I was made Princess Snow, eyes like the sky and hair as white as my name.' A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there lived Snow White. He chose my name and had some genetic resequencing done. “The day I was born, my father was more interested in unusual weather for the season.

Stitching Snow by R.C. Lewis