“ A Spindle Splintered is a princess story gone rogue. Brava!” -Ellen Klages, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea and Passing Strange “Alix Harrow takes traditional fairy tales, turns them inside out, then upside down, and uses them to kick ass.
“This is a self-aware, empowered riff on Sleeping Beauty that manages to be thrilling, funny, smart, and sweet.” -Sarah Pinsker, Nebula Award-winning author of A Song for a New Day “A wonderfully imaginative, and Queer as hell, tale for those who wish to be the authors of their own stories.” -Kalynn Bayron, author of Cinderella is Dead Harrow’s trademark beautiful prose and whip-smart characters.” -Mike Chen, author of Here and Now and Then
“Like Into the Spider-Verse for Disney princesses, A Spindle Splintered is a delightful mash-up featuring Alix E. It might dent your heart a little, but it's good fun.” -NPR “It's funny, sharp, queer, and deeply loves its source material.This novella pushes against the hopelessness of inevitability it dares us to believe in sympathetic magic it tells us we're connected through story. “An exceptional heroine, smart writing, and a winning plot.” -Nancy Pearl “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, bestselling author of the Winternight trilogy Shortlisted for the 2022 British Fantasy Award 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.Ī Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables #1)Ī Locus Best Book and Editor Favorite of 2021 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. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition.
It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. “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 Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story.
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