I hate to rate anything written by Neil Gaiman as "one star" but it would be dishonest if I didn't in this one case. 
 I don't know what it is about the Snow White tale that is so hit or miss for even the best authors, but bad Snow White retellings do seem to be pushing up their nasty poisoned daisies every which way I turn lately. Much like the apple-spitting heroine of the Grimms original (and usually superior) fairytale, these stories just won't stay dead! 
 In this story, a queen is at odds with her vampire (sort of) stepdaughter and eventually her unbelievably creepy and hateable prince charming. 
 Even the writing just came across as perverse and ugly rather than gorily interesting, which is what I THINK the author was going for. It was jarring, unpleasant, and unlike the beauty that is Neil Gaiman's Stardust, you couldn't PAY me to read this thing again.