I really loved how Harrow turns the fairy tale tropes on its head, the disability representation, and the feminist goals of the novel. Harrow’s novels, A Spindle Splintered is filled with the author’s trademark beautiful prose and her ability to immediately suck you into the world. Instead of trying to evade the fact that most fairy tales are completely chauvinistic, A Spindle Splintered, embraces this truth and seeks to destroy it on what is a lighthearted adventure sprinkled with darker themes, including terminal illnesses and what it means for women to not have any choices. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, she founds herself cast into another world, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.Ī Spindle Splintered is a breath of fresh air of a fairy retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Her best friend is intent on making Zin’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, but the main fact for Zinnia is that no one who has it has lived to twenty-two. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition.
It’s Zinnia Gray’s twenty-first birthday, which is an extra-special occasion, because it’s the last she’ll ever have. Only the dying girls like Sleeping Beauty.” The romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast basic girls like Cinderella goth girls like Snow White. Even among the other nerds who majored in folklore, Sleeping Beauty is nobody’s favorite. It’s aimless and amoral and chauvinist as shit. “Sleeping Beauty is the worst fairy tale, pretty much any way you slice it. Published by Tordotcom on October 5th 2021īuy on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Book Depository This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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