‘The Snow Girl’: 5 major differences between the Netflix drama and the original book

‘The Snow Girl’ has proved to be one of the great Spanish series on Netflix in 2023, a title that has reached this platform with a large dose of drama, suspense and mystery, a production that is an outstanding adaptation of the book of the same name written by Javier Castillo and released in 2020, which also achieved great success.

As is common in the film industry, “The Snow Girl”, for its adaptation on Netflix, has changed some details of the original story presented by Javier Castillo in the aforementioned book released in 2020, and if you are one of those who have already enjoyed this production and want to know more, here we show you the most important changes that the streaming giant has made to this story.

Netflix adds a little storyline

As we know, ‘The Snow Maiden’ focuses on a journalist who desperately tries to help parents find their little girl who has been kidnapped, however, in the first episodes of this production a serious crime is shown that revolves around the character played by actor Tristán Ulloa, a friend of the kidnapped girl’s father, a short storyline that was incorporated by the streaming giant into this adaptation, which does not appear in the book.

The name of the characters

another god differences between the series and the book ‘The Snow Maiden’ is the name presented by the main characters, because Netflix has changed practically all of them, since the only one who has kept her original name is the protagonist of this story. She looks, though, her last name is different, as she changed from Trigg to red.

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The city where ‘The Snow Girl’ is set

In the Spanish Netflix series subscribers can see that this story is set in the city of Malaga in Spain, however, in Javier Castillo’s book this title takes place in a different place, as the novel narrates its plot in the United States, specifically in New York, and the kidnapping we see in the production of the streaming service, occurs in the printed book at the Thanksgiving parade.

The chronology is not the same in Javier Castillo’s book

Also, another big change that occurs in the adaptation of ‘The Snow Maiden’ Netflix are the years in which this story takes place, since while in the printed work of Javier Castillo This drama takes place between 1998 and 2010, in the successful production of the streaming giant we see how the most important points take place between 2011 and 2019.

Character changes

Similarly, another god main changes made by Netflix ‘The Snow Maiden’ It is in the characters, since in addition to the age it is also seen that in the book the mother of the missing girl is pregnant with her second child, and in the series it is not so, moreover, the teacher and mentor of the protagonist of this story is 30 years old , while in streaming he is a more mature character, finally the police in charge of investigating this case Belén Millen, in the printed work it is actually Benjamin Miller.