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“I never stopped trying to save you, so don’t you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself.”

A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables #1) by Alix E. Harrow

February 12, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

A Spindle Splintered is a queer retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale, playing on the variations that exist and adding one of its own. The basic story has been around for almost seven hundred years and has flown through the hands of Basile, Perrault, and Grimm, and that’s before we get into the hundreds of adaptations so what’s another? Harrow brings her own lens to this, and imbues her lead, Zinnia Grey, with a wonderfully clear voice. It is so realistic that I initially thought […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: a spindle splintered, alix e harrow, fairy tale retelling, fractured fable, novella, queer retelling, read harder challenge, sleeping beauty

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: a spindle splintered, alix e harrow, fairy tale retelling, fractured fable, novella, queer retelling, read harder challenge, sleeping beauty ·
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Into the Sleeping Beauty-Verse.

A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1) by Alix E. Harrow

December 8, 2021 by narfna 6 Comments

This was so fun! I didn’t actually know what this book was really about going in. I knew it was a Sleeping Beauty retelling, and that Alix E. Harrow wrote it, and that was all I needed. So the actual premise was surprising and refreshing! There’s definitely a reason the title for this series of novellas is ‘Fractured Fables.’ Harrow notes in her afterword, she pitched this book to her editor as “I want to Spider-Verse some fairy-tales.” I mean, who can’t get behind that? […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, a spindle splintered, alix e harrow, fractured fables, narfna, novellas, retellings, the multiverse

narfna's CBR13 Review No:181 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, a spindle splintered, alix e harrow, fractured fables, narfna, novellas, retellings, the multiverse ·
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