It was an interesting sci-fi story, but I'm not quite sure I'm a fan of the genre. I love some sci-fi Brandon Sanderson but this seemed a little more science nerdy. Overall, it was a good read. I liked the characters, in particular I found Orick the bear to be an interesting twist to the norm. I did like the ending of the first book and felt like the resolution was very satisfying.
For a free download, you get your moneys First, I have only read the first book in the series, The Golden Queen.
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For a free download, you get your moneys worth. Feb 22, Phil rated it liked it. I can see it as a parallel story with the Runelords books, though the two series are in no way actually related. This book is actually two in one. And while I think I would have given the first book a 4 or 5, the second book was not nearly as captivating, hence the 3 rating. Overall, I still haven't ready a David Farland book I haven't liked. Now if he could just hurry up and get the next Runelords book out Sep 01, Shawn rated it liked it Shelves: I really loved the Runelord series by Farland and maybe that set my expectations to high for this.
This was a "good" science fiction book but it wasn't up to the same standards that he set with his runelord series.
Ironhand's Daughter (The Hawk Queen, #1) by David Gemmell
At times things felt very rushed in this book especially the ending. I thought he spent to much time on set-up and not enough on character development. I really enjoyed reading this book. It was a wonderful journey that I was able to take with the characters. The descriptions are amazing, and its easy to read. Not one of those stories where you have to read the sentence several times to understand. Jul 24, Jessica Pesic rated it it was ok Shelves: I've never been a fan of science fiction, but I enjoyed Dave's Runelord series so much, that I thought I'd give this book a chance It wasn't terrible, but it certainly didn't convert me into a science fiction fan.
May 25, James Shrimpton rated it liked it. Sort of finished because I've only read the first book. An entertaining if somewhat predictable yarn. Lots of creativity in world building etc but a fairly standard story and didn't quite capture my interest as much as book 1 of the Runelords did. Dec 12, Jerramy rated it really liked it.
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An interesting Sci-Fi book, a quick easy ready and fun. Danielle rated it it was amazing Nov 15, Earl Boyes rated it really liked it Aug 27, Narcissa steals the ancient magic secrets of the Olden Dwarfs, marries and then murders Snow White's father, and "begins her reign as the Evil Queen, with the damned soul of her own father forever encased in the Magic Mirror as her slave.
Thus, the dwarfs must live in hiding to protect their families from the Queen's vengeance. In a Disney Channel Original Movie titled Descendants , the aged Evil Queen played by Kathy Najimy [91] is among a host of other villains who have been imprisoned on a forbidden Isle of the Lost, [92] and her daughter Evie played by Sofia Carson [93] is among their offspring who are allowed to return into the kingdom to attend school alongside the offspring of iconic Disney heroes Evie's father is unidentified.
Its title image features the iconic red apple of the Evil Queen, [94] [95] which was prominently featured in a teaser trailer.
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In the night-time visual show Fantasmic! She is introduced in the second act, when her Magic Mirror voiced by Tony Jay tells her that there are now three princesses Snow White, Ariel and Belle fairer than her. Enraged, the Queen transforms herself into a hag [] and uses the Mirror and her cauldron to summon various "all the forces of evil" [] in the form of a collection of Disney villains to come to her aid.
They include Maleficent, who transforms into a dragon. In the Tokyo DisneySea version, she also traps Mickey inside her mirror. At the climax of the show, Mickey is able to defeat the dragon and vanquish all the villains with a magic sword. The Witch is the last to die, transforming back into the Queen before she is destroyed. In the Disney Dream cruise ship show Villains Tonight! The Queen, changing from the Witch form, denies his invitation since Hades also invited Maleficent, her rival for Hades' affections and for the status of "the most evil in the land".
The Queen claims not to be Hades' girlfriend, but they just had "an interesting weekend" on Castaway Cay. In the end, the Queen and Maleficent put their differences aside as all villains should stick together and advise Hades to find evil within himself, and not from others. The Evil Queen is featured in a number of traditional games, albeit usually as a mere obstacle for the players. Walt Disney 1 features the Prince-like character's confrontations with evil Queen as she is searching for Snow White, who is hiding with the Dwarfs, to "put an end to her, once and for all!
The Witch serves as the antagonist in the unreleased Snow White game for the Atari Jiminy Cricket and the player venture into the worlds of the stories to restore the happy endings.
In the altered and game's final story, where there is no Prince, the Queen appearing in both of her forms has built a lair resembling her poisoned apple inside the scary wood, and has put Snow White to eternal sleep in her dungeon and intends to do the same to the Seven Dwarfs. The player needs to correctly mix ingredients for several potions including the True Love Potion to magically summon the Prince and save the day. It is followed by the fight with the Queen where she tries to get away and the player has to reflect her magic ball spells, until she retreats to her lair.
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There, while asking her mirror, she suddenly transforms into a hag and the mirror breaks. In 's video game Kingdom Hearts: She recruits the protagonist Terra to kill Snow White and bring back her heart in return for allowing him to use the Magic Mirror to locate Master Xehanort. Terra, like the huntsman, ultimately does not go through with this, and the Queen, learning of his betrayal, forces the Mirror to consume him, but Terra manages to fight the Mirror off and the Queen reluctantly gives him the information he looks for.
She later appears briefly in Ventus's scenario, where she crosses paths with him on her way to poison Snow White. She drops the poisoned apple, which Ventus returns to her. She notices Ventus's Keyblade and muses that Terra threatened her with a similar weapon. She is then only briefly mentioned in Aqua 's storyline, when the Magic Mirror tells Aqua that the Queen is dead and he is no longer under her control.
In 's free-to-play mobile game Snow White: Queen's Return also known as Seven Dwarfs: The Queen's Return , [] an uncanonical continuation of the film, the Queen has survived the fall at the climax of the film because there was a lake at the bottom of the abyss. She then reverted to her youthful form and, seeking revenge, cast an evil curse on Snow White as well as the dwarfs and their entire forest. A weekly challenge in Disney Infinity: In 's Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion , the previously defeated Mizrabel returns to transform into various Disney villains, including the Queen, [] before setting on Maleficent.
In 's HD remake of Castle of Illusion , Mizrabel looks like a cross between the Queen and Maleficent in her youthful form and professes her ambition to be "the fairest of them all". In the audiobook release, the Queen voiced by Eleanor Audley wears a yellow dress and a red cape. She tells the Huntsman to take Snow White to the forest and leave her there to die.
In the end of the book, after being chased by the dwarfs, the Queen dies when she slips while climbing the mountain and falls into the sea. The novel Fairest of All: The book shows how the Queen became the villain from the film, much in the style of The Killing Joke , with the Magic Mirror, here possessed by the spirit of her abusive father, having been a corrupting influence.
According to the book, her mother was a witch and the King died in a war against another kingdom prior to the events of the film. After her husband's death, the Queen slowly descends into madness. By the end of novel, Snow White gets the mirror and the Queen becomes the spirit inside the mirror after her death in the film.
Like Maleficent, she is very powerful and is able to cast almost any spell with a flick of her finger; she can also transform herself and other characters. Melissa de la Cruz wrote the Descendants prequel novel Isle of the Lost. The — film tie-in serial comic strip "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" written by Merrill De Maris , one of the writers of the film, [] is centred primarily around the relationship between Snow White and the Queen. It further explores the source of the Queen's descent into a murderous envy, as she learns that the Prince came to her castle seeking the most beautiful woman in all the world and is shocked when he says he meant Snow White.
Like in the abandoned film concept, the Queen here actually named Grimhilde has the Prince arrested. In her Witch form, she later tells the captive Prince that she is going to get rid of Snow White and make him hers, while the Prince is defiant and calls her a "miserable hag". There is a number of comics set in the film's world.
One early comic Pamuk Prenses ile Sevimli Prens tells of the further adventures of Snow White and Prince Charming, as the Witch returns to put a spell on the latter. Usually under the alias the Witch, she often comes back to interact usually to antagonize, but sometimes also to occasionally cooperating with protagonistic characters with other Disney characters. Several comics include the Witch kidnapping another Disney character, either to be her slave or to exchange them for something, until they are rescued.
In a prequel story Battle of Wits and Witches , the Queen turns into the hag to steal a diamond from the Dwarfs but is foiled by Mickey and Goofy. The Queen also appears as one of the villains in the Disney manga series Kilala Princess by Rika Tanaka and Nao Kodaka, where the protagonists Rei and Kilala Reno find themselves in the world of Snow White, and meet and befriend the princess.
They go the Queen's castle to ask the Magic Mirror how to find Kilala's friend Erika, but discover the Queen is still alive and even commanding the two vultures, as well as wolves as she appears and demands Kilala's magical tiara. The children try to flee but are attacked by wolves and locked up in the dungeon, where the Queen transforms into the Witch and prepares to turn Kilala into an ugly creature.
Snow White appears and agrees to sacrifice herself to save them, but Kilala stops her at last moment before she can eat a poison apple; Rei then attacks the Queen, who falls into her cauldron, turns into a vulture, and flies away in a defeat. Many stories, notably usually featuring the Queen in her youthful form, have been first published in Italian Disney digest comic series, [] in particular in Topolino. For instance, "Snow White and the Shattered Mirror" Biancaneve e lo specchio infranto , [] has the old Witch, terminally ill, discover she has only one day to live, but she refuses to accept her destiny and finds a way to conquer death.
In "Goofy the Magician and the Seven Dwarfs" Pippo mago e i Sette Nani , [] the Queen's four goon henchmen attack the dwarfs and steal their treasure but then decide to keep it for themselves and Grimhilde seeks help from the wizard Abracadabro to stop their run; eventually, it is the Prince who defeats the robbers.
She once again attempts to eliminate Snow White with the help of seven evil dwarfs, but in doing so she burns ends up burning all of her vital energy and Oren takes her with him. She is also often shown using a crystal ball to spy on the good characters. His comic "The Seven Dwarfs and King Arbor's Crystal" I Sette Nani e il cristallo di Re Arbor provides an explanation as to how the Queen would have survived her apparent death in the film as some branches and bushes eased the fall and she was rescued by her loyal guards and why she could not change back to her normal self as her castle was burned down by the Huntsman and her book of magic is gone.
In this story, Grimhilde Grimilde enlists the aid of her great admirer and past suitor, the evil King Arbor of Vegetalia, in a plot to use a magic crystal device to swap her old body with Snow White's. The uneasy relationship between Grimhilde and Abor continued in the comic "The Seven Dwarfs and the Fountainhead" I Sette nani e la fonte meravigliosa , [] [] in which she desperately attempts to regain her youth, but instead only turns into a childlike version of her Witch form for a short time.
Other comics by Romano Scarpa have the Queen in her youthful form. The Queen begs the High Witch for mercy and is given a magic wand with the power of transformation, but if she would not succeed this time she will be turned into a magic broom for a more "honorable" witch to fly. The Queen uses the wand to gain trust of Snow White and turn her a figurine, than takes the princess' form to ambush the dwarfs and do the same with them, and waits for the Prince's arrival to kill him.
Only Dopey escapes and eventually manages to outwit the Queen, using her wand to restore his friends and transform her into a figurine, which later turns into a broom when her sentence is carried over. In "The Seven Dwarfs and the Throne of Diamonds" I Sette Nani e il trono di diamanti , [] Jiminy Cricket is deeply enamored by the Queen's beauty and attempts to convince her to become good, but the Queen refuses to be redeemed and orders her soldiers to steal the throne the Dwarfs make for Snow White in a plot to turn her rival into an old woman.
Eventually, the Queen is defeated by another witch Tardona and Snow White is saved. She takes on many forms trying to thwart them in various ways, and one-by-one the dwarfs sacrifice their lives, until only Dopey remains but he manages to get hold of magical water that brings back all of them to life. The freed fairy's magic makes the cavern collapse down on the helpless Queen to make sure she will never hurt anyone again. In "The Seven Dwarfs and the Birtch Ring" I Sette Nani e l'anello di betulla by Romano Scarpa , [] the Queen learns about the eighth Dwarf named Ginger Zenzero , who has left his companions to go in search of fortune traveling the world, and transforms into a pixie named Fagottina to send him home and sow discord among his brothers.
But Dopey infiltrates her castle, frees Snow White, and locks up the Queen in her laboratory set ablaze, after which the whole castle is consumed by fire and explodes after the dwarf and the princess escape. The character has been featured in a wide variety of Disney merchandise, such as in the Designer Villains series of limited edition dolls and make-up products, or the Wickedly Beautiful entry in the Beautifully Disney collection of cosmetic products. Regina is the mayor of the idyllic town of Storybrooke, Maine, but is secretly the Evil Queen of legend, having cursed many beloved fairy tale characters to live in a land without magic, where they will never get their happy endings.
The show is not directly based on the Disney animated films, but is inspired by them and makes many references to them. One of its episodes is titled " The Evil Queen ". The Disney version of the character was very well received by film critics, even as some were disturbed columnist Dorothy Kilgallen for instance urged Disney to not make future villains as scary as the Witch [57].
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Stephen Hunter included her being "cool" among the "wonderful truths about Snow White. The image of the wicked Queen initially conceived as a raven-haired glamour girl, and the epitome of lates sophistication who drinks an aging potion and then shrivels, sprouting warts and claws, turning before our eyes from a sexy, voluptuous creature into a frightening old crone, must leave as powerful an impression on the audience as Snow White's chirpy femininity.
Individualist feminist Camille Paglia said that she used to be transfixed by this "temperamental diva bitch", due to the contrast with the ideal of womanhood that she had been presented to as a child: I thought she was fabulous. Once Upon the Time co-creator Adam Horowitz said that his earliest Disney memory was seeing a re-release of Disney's Snow White when he was "terrified by the Evil Queen while also being unable to look away and that stuck with me through the years. I remember growing up watching [it] and being completely freaked out by that scene where the evil queen becomes the old witch and she makes the poison apple.
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