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Start giftingA Spindle Splintered
Fractured Fables: Book #1
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Amy Landon
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Length
3 hours 20 minutes
Language
English
Bookseller recommendation
“What if every version of every fairy tale existed, side by side, like parallel universes? What if you could travel between them? And... what if every heroine in every world were as different as the magic objects and villains and settings in each version? What if, for example, one Sleeping Beauty would much rather be awakened by a girl from our world who won't let domineering monarchs, inevitable curses, or guys with swords stand in her way? Bonus points for a very different Maleficent, clever pop culture references, and a fresh angle on what counts as a version of a fairy tale.”
— Nialle • The Haunted Bookshop
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“Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday is the last she'll ever have. No one who has the same rare illness as Zinnia has lived past the age of 21. Spurred by her love of fairy tales, especially the one of Sleeping Beauty, and wanting to make her birthday the best it can be, Zinnia's best friend Charm sets up a spindle in a dark tower for her to celebrate. But when Zinnia jokingly pricks her finger on the spindle, she travels through worlds and pages and wakes up in an entirely different story. Alix Harrow weaves a tale where dying princesses take back their agency and defy a predestined fate, a tale where multiple "sleeping beauties" are not sleeping at all, but vividly awake enough to rewrite their own story and save themselves. I loved every minute of this fiercely feminist and reimagined fairy-tale.”
— Kelly • Mysterious Galaxy Books
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“Get ready to push back your bedtime! You won’t want to get a wink of sleep until you’ve finished A Spindle Splintered. Alex E. Harrow breathes life into the sleepiest of fairytales in this sapphic retelling of sleeping beauty.”
— Caroline • Phoenix Books
"Amy Landon's lively narration unites present-day Ohio and Perceforest, a fairy-tale realm, in this immersive reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty universe." - AudioFile Magazine
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tordotcom
Alix E. Harrow is the Hugo Award winning author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, and various short fiction. Her Fractured Fables series, beginning with the novella A Spindle Splintered, has been praised for its refreshing twist on familiar fairy tales. A former academic and adjunct, Harrow lives in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids.
