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A Spindle Splintered Sneak Peek
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. Download a FREE sneak peek today!
"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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"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.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
- GenresFantasy
Kindle Edition
Published July 27, 2021
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About the author
Alix E. Harrow
48 books25k followersa former academic, adjunct, cashier, blueberry-harvester, and kentuckian, alix e. harrow is now a full-time writer living in virginia with her husband and their semi-feral kids.
she is the hugo award-winning and nyt-bestselling author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY (2019), THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES (2020), a duology of fairytale novellas (A SPINDLE SPLINTERED and A MIRROR MENDED), STARLING HOUSE (2023) and various short fiction. her next book, THE EVERLASTING, will be out on october 28th, 2025!
her writing is represented by kate mckean at howard morhaim literary agency.
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she is the hugo award-winning and nyt-bestselling author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY (2019), THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES (2020), a duology of fairytale novellas (A SPINDLE SPLINTERED and A MIRROR MENDED), STARLING HOUSE (2023) and various short fiction. her next book, THE EVERLASTING, will be out on october 28th, 2025!
her writing is represented by kate mckean at howard morhaim literary agency.
newsletter: https://buttondown.com/alixeharrow
email: alixeharrow at gmail.com
insta: alix.e.harrow
bsky: @alixeharrow.bsky.social
**I AM NOT ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER, nor will i ever offer to connect you with my "marketing team." this is a scam.
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October 1, 2021
I can't wait to get my hands on this book. The sneak peek was incredible. I read it so quickly and almost threw a full on toddler tantrum when I finished and realised I now need to wait 5 sleeps to read the rest 😫 ❤👸🏻🏰
November 26, 2022
A clever, contemporary, feminist re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty. Alix Harrow has beautifully blended many versions of the classic into a new modern classic.
May 12, 2022
This was SUCH a sweet story! I love the take on Sleeping Beauty. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!
January 11, 2022
A cute story that I liked, but after The Once and Future Witches and Ten Thousand Doors of January, I was expecting more? Her usual twists on common concepts and misunderstandings of fairy tales and lore is still there and good, but it felt like her interesting way of saying things was not as strong. I will be preordering her next novella and everything else she writes, but her full length novels are my favorite and I cannot recommend them enough.
September 8, 2021
Enchanted
Can’t wait to read the rest of this story. A fascinating new retelling of sleeping beauty. I enjoy fairy tales and most all of the retellings I’ve read.
Can’t wait to read the rest of this story. A fascinating new retelling of sleeping beauty. I enjoy fairy tales and most all of the retellings I’ve read.
September 26, 2022
Remarkably inventive and enjoyable. I love re-envisioned fairy tales.
November 5, 2023
Lovely quick read - a modern reworking of sleeping beauty that gives agency to the beauty
October 13, 2021
One thing I really liked about this book was that the it was short -- by that I meant the author told the story -- she didn't add extra complications simply to make it a more common length. I also really liked the basic theme, fairy tales always talk about the handsome prince, but never ask the question, "what if the handsome prince is an asshole." I gave it four rather than five stars was that while I liked the theme, I felt it was pounded too hard and repeated ... on the verge of preachy. It is defintely worth reading.
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