![]() ![]() It doesn’t end up the way they were hoping, but the defiance isn’t in the result, it’s in the act itself. The two then decide to flee the castle and track down the evil fairy, hoping to remove the curse (perhaps both of theirs) completely. When Zinnia stumbles upon Primrose, she interrupts the curse – stopping her from pricking her finger and thus falling into the enchanted sleep. What Harrow does with this book is give the sleeping princess a choice. All of these are brought up early on by Zinnia, who is obsessed with the fairy tale as it mirrors her own existence. ![]() ![]() While I do love Sleeping Beauty, the Disney movie, I acknowledge that Aurora is a heroine only in the loosest sense, having very little agency and hardly any lines in a film that’s named after her. ![]() The prose isn’t as poetic (it’s still exceedingly well-written), but Harrow never fails to craft an entertaining story. The two could honestly not be more different, but it doesn’t matter. Harrow, the author of one of my favorite fantasy novels, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, I was expecting something a little like that when I read this book, and that was my mistake. There’s even a spinning wheel! Then Zinnia pricks her finger on the spindle and ends up in an alternate universe, facing down a young princess named Primrose who’s been cursed by an evil fairy, and you have A Spindle Splintered.Ī Spindle Splintered is a queer, feminist retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. On what is likely to be her last birthday, her best friend goes all out, theming the party around Zinnia’s obsession with the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Zinnia has a rare, terminal illness and not much time left. ![]()
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