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Snow Roses
Some secrets won’t leave you alone. Others can get you killed.
After her father’s death, Snow shuts herself away in her grief cluttered chambers, but she is plagued by more than painful memories. She will never be safe unless she forgets how her father really died.
Meanwhile, Rose leaves the sleeping village she grew up in for the first time in search of her missing grandmother. Alone at night, she finds ghosts, a rabid wolf, her grandmother’s mangled corpse, and Snow.
Snow and Rose thrive together in the woods but hiding will not keep them safe forever. It will take something stronger than walls to conquer the darkness that haunts them.
Snow Roses is a gothic lesbian fairy tale.
After her father’s death, Snow shuts herself away in her grief cluttered chambers, but she is plagued by more than painful memories. She will never be safe unless she forgets how her father really died.
Meanwhile, Rose leaves the sleeping village she grew up in for the first time in search of her missing grandmother. Alone at night, she finds ghosts, a rabid wolf, her grandmother’s mangled corpse, and Snow.
Snow and Rose thrive together in the woods but hiding will not keep them safe forever. It will take something stronger than walls to conquer the darkness that haunts them.
Snow Roses is a gothic lesbian fairy tale.
300 pages, Paperback
First published December 3, 2014
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Taryn Tyler
11 books13 followersTaryn Tyler is a poet and bestselling fiction author. Her unique, lyrical voice paints a rich tapestry of emotions as she draws from fairy tales, folklore, and gothic novels to tell dark stories of love, magic, and sometimes even hope. Her gothic lesbian fairy tale, Snow Roses is an audible bestseller.
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November 20, 2015
'Snow Roses' combines the magic of faerie tales, with characters as real and immediate as any person alive today. Narrated in first person, but from two very unique perspectives, this is a story that will draw you in and hold you captive till the very end. Mystery, love, ghosts, heroes, villains, monsters and maidens and witches and wolves . . . all brought to vibrant life, and spun together to form a story with familiar elements made utterly new.
November 22, 2023
Though I enjoyed the dynamic between Snow and Rose, the last half of the book took this down from 3 stars to 2.
Trigger warning: rape.
Trigger warning: rape.
March 14, 2025
I really loved this book. Snow Roses is a sapphic, dark fairytale following Snow, a young woman trapped in a castle after the death of her father with her evil stepmother and Rose, a young woman spinning thread in a small village on the edge of a haunted wood. During a pivotal night, they're dragged together to a cottage in the middle of that dark wood.
This book is haunting, slow, and the writing is really captivating, rich, and descriptive. Between Lucille's castle and the wood it's frightening and Snow and Rose find comfort in each other. There's a pleasant peace between them and between their nightmares, there's a comfort in the cottage in the wood.
This book is really quiet and slow more than anything and the development is really subtle and genuine. There's a beautiful, dark magic to it. The magic in this book really feels breathing and alive.
It's hard to put into words exactly how I feel about this book. It's dark, but at the same time comforting, Snow and Rose slowly grew their pleasant romance as their time in the cottage ticked by, and the book is just darkly, deeply magical. It's a soft, chilling, slow book. Snow and Rose are complex characters who I grew attached to. The ending was sweet and emotional. And they really deserved it.
Trigger Warnings: R*pe / S*xual A*sault, Extreme T*rture, Horror, G0re, D3ath, Bl0od, Frightening Imeragery, Injury, et cetera
🗡 Haunted Wood
🥀 Dark Fairytale
🗡 Twisted Stepmother
🥀 Witches & Magic that Feels Alive
🗡 Haunting, Vivid Imagery
🥀 Dark Fairytale Creatures, Frightening Monsters, & Deceptive People
🗡 Dark, but Pleasantly Comforting
🥀 Quiet & Slow
🗡 Cottage in the Woods (dark cottagecore vibes)
🥀 Grief & Loss
🗡 Pleasant, Slow-Burn Friends to Lovers Sapphic Romance
This book is haunting, slow, and the writing is really captivating, rich, and descriptive. Between Lucille's castle and the wood it's frightening and Snow and Rose find comfort in each other. There's a pleasant peace between them and between their nightmares, there's a comfort in the cottage in the wood.
This book is really quiet and slow more than anything and the development is really subtle and genuine. There's a beautiful, dark magic to it. The magic in this book really feels breathing and alive.
It's hard to put into words exactly how I feel about this book. It's dark, but at the same time comforting, Snow and Rose slowly grew their pleasant romance as their time in the cottage ticked by, and the book is just darkly, deeply magical. It's a soft, chilling, slow book. Snow and Rose are complex characters who I grew attached to. The ending was sweet and emotional. And they really deserved it.
Trigger Warnings: R*pe / S*xual A*sault, Extreme T*rture, Horror, G0re, D3ath, Bl0od, Frightening Imeragery, Injury, et cetera
🗡 Haunted Wood
🥀 Dark Fairytale
🗡 Twisted Stepmother
🥀 Witches & Magic that Feels Alive
🗡 Haunting, Vivid Imagery
🥀 Dark Fairytale Creatures, Frightening Monsters, & Deceptive People
🗡 Dark, but Pleasantly Comforting
🥀 Quiet & Slow
🗡 Cottage in the Woods (dark cottagecore vibes)
🥀 Grief & Loss
🗡 Pleasant, Slow-Burn Friends to Lovers Sapphic Romance
June 25, 2024
3.5 ⭐ CW: torture, death of a parent, death of a child mention, grief, sexual assault, animal death
Snow Roses by Taryn Tyler is book one in the Snow and Rose series. This was a YA sapphic retelling of three fairytales: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Red Riding Hood. I enjoyed this story, but I did think the pacing was a bit off. The first part and last part of the book were pretty good, but the middle dragged a bit.
We start off by following Snow, a princess shut up in her room overcome with grief over the death of her father. She starts sneaking out and learns to hunt and chop wood from the Hunter Hans. Finally, Snow realizes that she is being kept in her room by her step-mother Lucille, who wants her dead. She eventually runs away and finds a cottage in the woods.
Then we follow Rose, a village girl who spins thread. When her grandmother doesn't show up like she usually does, Rose sets off into the wood in her red cloak to find her. She encounters ghosts in the wood along with creepy guy Boris (Lucille's son), and finds her grandmother's mutilated body at her cottage. Rose is about to be attacked by a werewolf when Snow steps in and saves her. We get to see their relationship blossom.
I liked the way Tyler blended these fairytales together. She even included the seven dwarves as ill tempered hobgoblins. It was a pretty short read, under 200 pages. I will be reading the next book, Night Briars.
Snow Roses by Taryn Tyler is book one in the Snow and Rose series. This was a YA sapphic retelling of three fairytales: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Red Riding Hood. I enjoyed this story, but I did think the pacing was a bit off. The first part and last part of the book were pretty good, but the middle dragged a bit.
We start off by following Snow, a princess shut up in her room overcome with grief over the death of her father. She starts sneaking out and learns to hunt and chop wood from the Hunter Hans. Finally, Snow realizes that she is being kept in her room by her step-mother Lucille, who wants her dead. She eventually runs away and finds a cottage in the woods.
Then we follow Rose, a village girl who spins thread. When her grandmother doesn't show up like she usually does, Rose sets off into the wood in her red cloak to find her. She encounters ghosts in the wood along with creepy guy Boris (Lucille's son), and finds her grandmother's mutilated body at her cottage. Rose is about to be attacked by a werewolf when Snow steps in and saves her. We get to see their relationship blossom.
I liked the way Tyler blended these fairytales together. She even included the seven dwarves as ill tempered hobgoblins. It was a pretty short read, under 200 pages. I will be reading the next book, Night Briars.
April 17, 2023
⁂𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰⁂
After the death of her father, Snow runs away from her home and evil step mother and runs into Rose (red riding hood) who just lost her grandmother. The two hid away from prying eyes in the forest where they remain until they must take on the evil queen and destroy her once and for all. After, will Snow stay with Rose or will she return to her life as a royal?
𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬:
⇝ Slow Burn
⇝ Forced Proximity
⇝ Redemption
𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬:
⭐️Alternating POV
⭐️Unique take on fairytales
⭐️Combined fairytales
⭐️LGBTQ love story
𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬:
😒 There are some typos and formatting oddities but they don’t get in the way of the story.
5⭐️ I loved this book! It was BEAUTIFULLY written. I would highly recommend to anyone who likes fairytale retellings!
After the death of her father, Snow runs away from her home and evil step mother and runs into Rose (red riding hood) who just lost her grandmother. The two hid away from prying eyes in the forest where they remain until they must take on the evil queen and destroy her once and for all. After, will Snow stay with Rose or will she return to her life as a royal?
𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬:
⇝ Slow Burn
⇝ Forced Proximity
⇝ Redemption
𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬:
⭐️Alternating POV
⭐️Unique take on fairytales
⭐️Combined fairytales
⭐️LGBTQ love story
𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬:
😒 There are some typos and formatting oddities but they don’t get in the way of the story.
5⭐️ I loved this book! It was BEAUTIFULLY written. I would highly recommend to anyone who likes fairytale retellings!
May 17, 2021
"Read" vis audible. This was a very interesting take on Snow White and the Little Red Riding Hood stories. It crossed them over and intertwined the two stories. It is a little slow at times and you don't really see a romantic relationship grow between them through the story until the very end. All in all a decent story.
July 20, 2021
Super cute, predictable but in a good way. Short and sweet read
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