Book Review:
A Spindle Splintered
🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀/5🥀
One of the perks of being a Barnes & Noble bookseller is we get access to ARCs. And that’s how I got my hands on this coming soon book by Alix E. Harrow.
The introduction letter describes it as Sleeping Beauty meets Spider-verse. That’s so spot on. It’s also an unapologetically kick-ass, queer, and empowering story. The shadow illustrations throughout are *chef’s kiss*. And it’s definitely a single sitting read clocking in at 119 pages.
The story follows dying girl Zinna into a fairytale, her favorite, Sleeping Beauty. Also here are Zinna’s best friend Charm and Primrose, a Princess with no interest in Princes.
The writing is snarky and badass. The story is beautifully different and full of lessons on agency and bucking the roles assigned to us and learning to be true to who we are.
When this comes out in October make sure you grab a copy!!
(Finished August 19, 2021)
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