As Black As Ebony
Author: Salla Simukka
Author: Owen Witesman
Book 3 in the Snow White Trilogy series
Pages: 176
Published: 2015
Age: 13+
After a harrowing summer in Prague, Lumikki Andersson is back in Finland at her prestigious art school, concentrating on graduation. She lands the lead role in the school's modern-day adaptation of Snow White and finds herself facing a new distraction – Sampsa, the boy playing the role of the huntsman, who has an undeniable allure that makes Lumikki conflicted about what, and who, she wants.
As Lumikki starts falling into something more than just her role on stage, a shadow is cast over the production when she begins receiving creepily obsessive love notes. Lumikki can't ignore the increasingly hostile tone of her admirer's messages, and when the stalker threatens mass violence at the play's premiere, Lumikki knows she must discover who is behind the menace and stop the person at all costs.
With a foe who has a heart as black as ebony, does Lumikki have any hope of saving those she loves?
About the Snow White Trilogy Series
Books in series order
- 1.As Red as Blood(2014)
- 2.As White As Snow(2015)
- 3.As Black As Ebony(2015)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
17-year-old Lumikki Andersson goes to a high school of performing arts. She has made it a rule to stay out of things that do not involve her. However, the rule is put to the test on leap day when she finds washed five hundred euro notes hung to dry in her school’s darkroom. It turns out that three students from Lumikki’s high school have in their possession plastic bags containing bloody notes, and soon Lumikki finds herself caught in a tangled web of international drug trade. Elisa, one of the three students and daughter of a wealthy family, begins to suspect that her father, a police officer in the narcotics division, is somehow involved.
Lumikki is swept into a whirlpool of events and faces life-threatening situations on the run from Russian and Estonian criminals. Finally, after four hectic days, Lumikki finds herself in a huge mansion where the mysterious Polar Bear is having a legendary secret party. In the mansion, all secrets are revealed. It’s the coldest winter in decades; the streets of Tampere are frozen and white with snow. And nothing is as red against white snow as blood.
Translated from Finnish by Owen Witesman, this dark and thrilling series has been likened to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for a young adult audience.