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A Spindle Splintered

By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: Amy Landon
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"Amy Landon's lively narration unites present-day Ohio and Perceforest, a fairy-tale realm, in this immersive reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty universe." - AudioFile Magazine

USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined.

“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

It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one.

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. 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.

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I loved this - American narrator is dialect appropriate given the character and setting, but a little 'auto' sounding at times. Still good though. can't wait for the next one!

Alix E Harrow rocks!

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I really really wanted to love this book, I've absolutely fell head over heels for Alix E. Harrow's previous work and the production of the audio version of The Once and Future Witches is a GEM, so this was a true let down.
Maybe it's the audiobook narrator's repetitive tone, maybe it's cause I too have an incurable disease and I guess I'm bitter about the lack of multiverse and opportunities to win even only a few years over my degenerative symptoms?
I don't know.
Some elements of the story telling around disease and disability felt weak and at times straight up ableist in their cliché-ness.
But anyway, I appreciated some elements. I love folklore and takes as much as A E H, so all the references and rewriting echoed and hit home for me.
I too I'm stuck with an un-rewrittable story, and it is very true that the only way forward is to not be on your own and fight like hell for your right to live.

Overall it's more a 2.5 but I can't help but feel disappointed in this one, don't think I'll pick up the sequel.

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