‘A Spindle Splintered’ Gives Sleeping Beauty Some Serious Agency

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Author Alix E. Harrow is an absolute treasure and a major gift to literature. Her new book takes charge at Sleeping Beauty and the idea of a multiverse. Zinnia Gray is turning 21. While that’s a big deal in most lives, it’s even bigger because she has an extremely rare medical condition where no one has lived past 21. Exhausted, scared, and facing her mortality, Zinnia has been obsessed with the story of sleeping beauty since she was a child. Her best friend, Charm, goes all out for this possible final birthday. She goes to their regular spot in the tower of an abandoned facility and has fully decorated it for the full sleeping beauty experience, including a spinning wheel. As a joke, Zinnia pricks her finger, but finds herself in a different world.

What follows is Zinnia trying to save sleeping beauty, but finding out that maybe the sleeping sickness was the greatest kindness that could have occurred. With a blend of other sleeping beauties in other universes,  readers get a bit of fantasy, a bit of sci-fi, and a fabulous fairy tale that keeps you involved the entire way. The audiobook of this story is performed by Amy Landon.

A Spindle Splintered is available today from Macmillian Audio.

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