A Spindle Splintered

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Harrow, Alix E.
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

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"USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. "A vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." -Katherine Arden. It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate"-- Provided by publisher.

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Wildly different, yet a familiar tale... submitted by KimB on August 25, 2022, 2:37am An interesting take on a classic fairytale!

a spindle splintered submitted by nemiller on August 4, 2023, 8:24am It was mostly enjoyable.

There were a few weird moments that took me out of the story. I'm not even sure if I would call it racism, just... weird. For example, no one's race is mentioned until a minor character introduced near the end, and then it's specified three or four times that she's Black. And there's an off-hand comment from one presumably white character to another, that she'll do alright because she's "young, white, and pretty." It could be a commentary on racism, but the book didn't actually examine racism other than that comment, so it just felt weird.

Otherwise it's an alright book. Three out of five stars for me.