#stitching snow

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April 2025 JOMPBPC: Day 20 Books And Chocolate

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Some journeys can only be made once. Some partings aren’t what they seem. Some endings must be so something else can begin.

R. C. Lewis, Stitching Snow

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Takes place in ...

October 08: Outer space

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Cover Appreciation: Stitching Snow and Spinning Starlight by Rae Carson

Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines. When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane’s arrival was far from accidental, and she’s pulled into the heart of a war she’s risked everything to avoid. With the galaxy’s future—and her own—in jeopardy, Essie must choose who to trust in a fiery fight for survival.

Okay so I’m breaking from this post-series pattern AGAIN. These two books are written by the same author and are both fairytale retellings but they are in no way connected. HOWEVER, these covers are undeniably connected.

(Stitching Snow, Goodreads)

This post is a deviation to my pattern because these two cover aren’t part of a series nor are they companion books. They are by the same author, however, and are obviously meant to be visual companions.

I have a copy of Stitching Snow and it’s really beautiful. The purple lines are darker and more magenta-y than how they appear above. (Reminds me a little of blood falling on snow, get it?) None of the lines are raised, however, they’re all glossy whereas the white background is matte so it creates a cool affect when you move it around. I’m pretty sure Spinning Starlight does the same. The swan’s gray color on Spinning Starlight, against the blue background, isn’t a great contrast. I don’t know if the swan (if there even is one) in the novel is white but they could’ve chosen better colors even if it’s not.

The text color on Stitching Snow, like the apple’s color, is darker on the physical copy. More steel gray than how it looks above. It’s overall a better contrast to the white. For some reason all the HD versions of this cover are more purple than the real thing.

(Image grabbed from Google)

This is better color-wise. The actual print cover better shows the “red (magenta), black, and white” of Snow White.

I really like how these books look very similar and have similar treatments but that at the core of it they’re very different. The patterns they’re made up of are extremely different, one looks like computer hardware while the other looks like constellations. But they have matching flourishes and text, particularly the repetition of S and G on the top line and S on the bottom as well (the size down of Starlight bothers me tho). The S and G are perfectly aligned as well as being the same height. Overall I think the title text is extremely beautiful.

Side Note. On the physical version of Stitching Snow, the title on the spine is completely magenta. It’s quite pretty.

As much as I like the title-font, I don’t think the added patterns really help at all. The purple lines in the O in “Snow” don’t do it any favors (it also bothers me that the O is slightly off center and it makes the purple feel wrong somehow, off-balanced.) (I do like the emphasized O inside the book.) The sun-rays in the P of Spinning are . . . interesting. I have more issues with Spinning Starlight’s text than I do with Stitching Snow’s but it’s overall decent. That’s all I can really say about the latter.

That’s all for now! See ya next week!

- Kiara

@tcstu​ @grimoireoffolkloreandfairytales​ @brynwrites​

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If your name starts with “D”, you might have missed your calling as the male love interest in a YA novel. 

- Dorian (Throne of Glass, Sarah J Maas) - Damian (Defy, Sara B Larson) - Darren (Black Mage, Rachel E Carter) - Dane (Stitching Snow, R.C. Lewis) - Domitan (Protector of the Small, Tamora Pierce) - Daniel (Air Awakens, Elise Kova) - Darkling (Grisha Trilogy, Leigh Bardugo) - Darcy (Pride and Prejudice) - Dodge (Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor) - Domenic Dana (Tides, Alex Lidell) - The Dragon (Uprooted, Naomi Novik) - Deven (The Hundredth Queen, Emily King)

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Becoming Noah Shaw Book Photo Challenge + Giveaway

Kristen’s Day 4 - MIRROR

Whenever I think of mirrors, I can't help but think about the Evil Queen from Snow White. So that's why today's book photo is Stitching Snow, one of my fav retellings of Snow White (in SPAAACE!).

[ludosayshi]

Two of my favorite things, books & fun socks, combined into one?? Amazing! :)

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December 2024 JOMPBPC: Day 14 Wanted To Love But Didn't