![]() ![]() We ride on – we dying girls, we sorry girls, gallows-bound - until the fairy tale spires of Perceforest Castle rise through the trees, gilded by the setting sun. I enjoyed Harrow’s magical, dream-like writing. I also have to love an author that references classic Arthur Rackham illustrations. Her best friend, Charm, throws her a Sleeping Beauty-themed birthday party and suddenly Zinnia is thrust into a parallel universe with a princess, an enchanted spinning wheel, and an evil witch. Very few girls would say Sleeping Beauty is their favorite princess - she has no adventures, she just goes into a coma on her birthday.īut Harrow’ protagonist, Zinnia, has always fantasized about Sleeping Beauty. That’s because she has a disease caused by chemicals in the water and she’s never been expected to live past the age of 21. It’s about a princess who does absolutely nothing until she’s kissed while unconscious. ![]() Harrow begins by telling readers exactly why Sleeping Beauty is the least feminist of the Grimm stories. That said, I’m becoming a big fan of Harrow, having read The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches.Ī Spindle Splintered is the first of a series of fairy tale retellings and in this one, Harrow takes on probably the hardest fairy tale to modernize - Sleeping Beauty. ![]() ![]() I’m not a fan of novella-length work, because it’s not long enough for me to really get into the story and its characters. ![]()
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