Welcome to Shelf Control — an original feature created and hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies.
Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! Fore more info on what Shelf Control is all about, check out my introductory post, here.
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My Shelf Control pick this week is:
Title: Blood Red, Snow White
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Published: 2007
Length: 304 pages
What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads):
When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his home in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, it is with 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 revolutionary leader Trotsky’s personal secretary. Both sides seek to use Arthur for their own purposes…and, as he struggles to find autonomy, both sides grow to suspect him of being a double agent. Arthur wants only to elope far from the conflict with his beloved. But when he attempts to extract himself and Evgenia from the complicated politics and politicians that he fears will lead them both to their deaths, the decisions he faces are the most dangerous and difficult of his life.
How I got it:
I ordered a used copy online.
When I got it:
About three years ago.
Why I want to read it:
After falling under the spell of Marcus Sedgwick’s Midwinterblood (review), I tracked down several more of his books. This is one of 3 or 4 sitting on my shelves, waiting to be read. I think the tag line on the cover captures exactly why I felt drawn to this book: Fairy tale, spy thriller, love story in the Russian Revolution. Any one or two of those elements on their own would be enough to catch my attention, but put them all together? Yes, please. I’m going to really try to make a point of reading Blood Red, Snow White this year.
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https://sanneinbookland.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/shelf-control-5/. Here is my link to shelf control. I heard such amazing things about Midwinterblood, hope this is amazing as well!
I have high hopes! Thanks!
It sounds very intersting… though the cover (which I love) doesn’t seem to really match the blurb.
The blurb sounds like a straight historical novel. Is it a speculative one instead?
I don’t really know… but since the blurb includes “fairy tale”, I think there must be some unusual/speculative elements in it.