Book description
Award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore retells Swan Lake in this spellbinding YA story of sisters who are each other's best friends―and worst enemies.
The biggest lie of all is the story you think you already know.
The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they’re also rivals, Blanca is as…
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1 author picked Blanca & Roja as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Anna-Marie McLemore’s prose is so poetic and elegant that I sometimes reread sentences just because they have such a beautiful cadence to them.
This book is a reimagining of “Snow White and Rose-Red” with elements of Swan Lake and Latinx folklore.
Everything McLemore writes is magic, but this story weaves together everything I love about their work: magical realism, velvety descriptions, and fairy tales cracked open in new ways to shed light on racial and gender politics.
I love the complicated, loving relationship between the two sisters, and I love that the boy Blanca falls in love with has a…
From Elizabeth's list on queer fairy tale retellings for teens.
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