A Spindle Splintered
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A Spindle Splintered
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Narrated by:
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Amy Landon
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Alix E. Harrow
"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.
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But I also was a little disappointed with finding some factual errors about the fairy tale's history (annoying, because the main character claims to know everything about its iterations) and the fantastical multiverse ending, which makes everything too easy. I had hoped for a clever heroine who uses her knowledge to manoeuver variations of Sleeping Beauty, but in the end she only has two good ideas. One goes nowhere and the other is barely logical and leads to said magical multiverse solution which feels like a deus ex machina that waters down the story's metaphor. At least the ladies save themselves, even if it is without cool logic and a lot of luck.
I enjoyed it anyway and will probably listen to the next part to see if the author can do a little better.
interesting & modern, though a little disappointing
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