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Original Title:	Blood Red, Snow White
ISBN:	1842551841 (ISBN13: 9781842551844)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Russia
Literary Awards:	Carnegie Medal Nominee (2008)

Blood Red, Snow White Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

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Title	:	Blood Red, Snow White
Author	:	Marcus Sedgwick
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2007 by Orion Children's Books
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Cultural. Russia. Fantasy. Fiction. Fairy Tales

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There never was a story that was happy through and through.

When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his unhappy marriage in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, he has little idea of the violent revolution about to erupt. Unwittingly, he finds himself at its center, tapped by the British to report back on the Bolsheviks even as he becomes dangerously, romantically entangled with Trotsky's personal secretary.

Both sides seek to use Arthur to gather and relay information for their own purposes . . . and both grow to suspect him of being a double agent. Arthur wants only to elope far from conflict with his beloved, but her Russian ties make leaving the country nearly impossible. And the more Arthur resists becoming a pawn, the more entrenched in the game he seems to become.

Blood Red Snow White, a Soviet-era thriller from renowned author Marcus Sedgwick, is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats.

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"Let me tell you a fairy tale.I used to tell stories like this all the time; it used to be so important. It even saved my life once. Now let me see, how do fairy tales begin?" My first Sedgwick novel was back in June 2015. Like this one, it was historical fiction, but was set in WWI in England. I was gripped by the first few chapters, and soon found myself finishing it in two sittings around two days. I adored the story, the writing style, and the voices of the characters. It was a 5 star

I bought this book because of the gorgeous cover, and the fact that it was about Russia. I didn't know it followed the lifeline of a historical figure until I finished it. I thought the characters stayed a bit flat, and it took me a while to get 'into' it. Nevertheless, it was a good read a nice way to read about the Russian Revolution. Favourite quote: "He lived, and now, being a character in a book who has survived to the final page, he lives forever." (p. 202)

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another. I think we need to clear some things up about this book.This is just my theory, but I'm pretty sure something like this happened: Due to the popularity of fairy tales and retellings in American YA, publishers have been scouting out the next bestseller - both among upcoming manuscripts

I feel quite certain this might have been a fantastic story, if only I could tell you what its about. Arthur Ransome is a spy. Scratch that! Ransome is a well-known childrens author in Britain whose history was built in an era when spying was in its infancy and loyalty had only a shadows definition. On a stage fraught with war, civil war, Reds, Whites, Bolsheviks, shifting allies, limited alliances and lots of people - chess pieces moving on a checkered board where all is question and all is

Wow. I have to say that this was one of the best historical fictions that I have ever read. The author is absolutely fantastic in the way that he manages to weave such a gripping story while still making it completely historically accurate. I loved the style of writing as well and the way it changed, as though the narrator was speaking right out of the book and reading it to me, in the first third of the book, but then the style was slowly altered until the story was being told from Arthur

Don't read this book; it is really bad.It's a stylistic disaster; it is divided into three parts, the first of which is a confused mish-mash of inter-related "fairy-tales". It mixes up Russian history with ideas from Arthur Ransome's book about - Russian fairy-tales! This, I think, is supposed to be clever, because the book is a fictionalised tale of Arthur Ransome's time living in Russia, before, during and after the revolution that brought Lenin to power. In fact it's just an incoherent mess.

What happens in a fairy tale is no more or less in anyone's control that what happens in life. OK folks, do not be fooled by either the cover or the above quote. What lies in between the pages Blood Red, Snow White is not a fairy tale. Had I adjusted my reading stance properly from this Soviet-era thriller could easily have been a 3 star. Blood Red, Snow White actually is the very real historical events of the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia and the fall of the Romanovs during the early 20th