Originally posted on Small Review 
 Absolutely awful. 
 For me. 
 I need to say "for me" because I'm starting to think I just might not like the original story. East of the Sun, West of the Moon, The Snow Queen, I don't know, there's something about all that trekking through cold, bleak tundras that turns me off. So maybe it's me. 
 Or maybe it's the book. It's so incredibly long and not much happens at all. The characters are bland, the plot drags, the flashbacks fell short, the side plot did nothing for me, the romance was unemotional, and the villain wasn't that interesting. 
 It's like everything was blanketed in muffling, dulling heaps of snow. There was just so much book here and so little substance. 
 The chapters are super short though, so it was easy to speed through East despite the mammoth size. I think that's the only reason I didn't DNF.