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Title	:	Blood Red, Snow White
Author	:	Marcus Sedgwick
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special 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

Blood Red, Snow White

Marcus Sedgwick

Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 1839 Users | 291 Reviews

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

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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

Sedgwick's authorial voice is nothing short of sensational, the fairytale quality running under his retelling the bloody Russian Revolutions through the eyes of Arthur Ransome. The novel is split into three parts, and Sedgwick jumps between stories until they lace into one another and never once lose pace or connection with the reader. It is an exceptional piece of writing, and reminded me strongly of other quasi-factual works such as The General in his Labyrinth, The Red Necklace and The Book



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

Well. I absolutely adored this book. I'm just going to say a couple of things first - it seems that some people are or were under the allusion that this is fantasy/a retelling, even though the blurb makes no such claims. This is straightforward historical fiction, much of it not even all that fictional, and that is just what I expected it to be. As for the title, Blood Red = communists, Snow White = tsarists. This is not any sort of Snow White retelling or similar. If you're looking for high

The Good: You could probably argue that Russia has the most interesting history of any country on Earth. Its full of unruly monarchs, revolution, corruption, secrets, scandals, and whatever the heck Rasputin was. Blood Red, Snow White is a fictionalization of real events that took place around the Russian Revolution. The main character, Arthur Ransome, was a real journalist and childrens book author who got roped into spying for Russia and England. His story is strange and harrowing. Hes a pawn

Blood Red Snow White is a book about Communist Russia, but above all, a book about ideological hatred. It is a book about how despising all communists and all British is always the wrong idea; people are people above all else. It's an important message and important story, but somehow, I just ended underwhelmed. Let's talk about why. Perhaps my biggest problem is missed expectations; the creativity and pull of the story is just not on par. Sedgwick's books get their power from being different;