Well, I ADORED this book when I first read it, but (1) I was in high school, and (2) I had somehow -- and I don't quite understand how this happened -- never actually read the HCA Snow Queen, so the whole thing felt fresh and new to me.
But thinking back (I haven't reread it in years), I think there are still things I'd like about it: I'm a sucker for the whole getting sucked into depravity and hating yourself for liking it thing -- one of my favorite varieties of Man Pain. Also, is it really a love triangle if the two women are (genetically and thematically) the same person? They both end up defining themselves in opposition to each other, so Sparks doesn't end up with a real, rounded person no matter who he picks, and that always broke my heart. He only gets half a woman -- like a world that only gets one season.
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But thinking back (I haven't reread it in years), I think there are still things I'd like about it: I'm a sucker for the whole getting sucked into depravity and hating yourself for liking it thing -- one of my favorite varieties of Man Pain. Also, is it really a love triangle if the two women are (genetically and thematically) the same person? They both end up defining themselves in opposition to each other, so Sparks doesn't end up with a real, rounded person no matter who he picks, and that always broke my heart. He only gets half a woman -- like a world that only gets one season.