Pictures of the Night

This final book in the Egerton House series by Adele Geras uses the Snow White fairytale as its basis. Bella’s stepmother has hated her all her life, and now Bella is wondering whether she’s even trying to kill her . . . three odd attempts on her life, not easily explained, end with Bella taking her life in her own hands and choosing exactly what that life is going to be.

The details of being in Paris in the sixties are fascinating, as are the different characters she meets. This tale leans a little more towards the supernatural than the other two, but Geras sensibly leaves it unexplained. As in the previous books, it’s told in a mixture of letter and diary entries, and the story fairly races along. The only problem with these books is that they’re too short! This was a great end to a great trilogy.