Overview:
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 [more…]
Would I Recommend It?
Yes, absolutely.
Thoughts?
Aaaaaand now I want to take an English course on folklore cause Alix revealed such cool pieces of info that I find would be neat to delve into it. (But maybe like a crash course and no homework/tests because I really never-ever want to go back to school.)
When a book starts with, “Sleeping Beauty is pretty much the worst fairy tale, any way you slice it. It’s aimless and amoral and chauvinist as shit.” then I’m pretty much hooked.
It’s a book that calls for grown up girls to be up in arms and live their own story and not just sleep through them. To shed the fairy tales of our ancestors and look beyond the princess covers of our childhood story books and see the real truth of the stories.
Alix is a 2 for 2 for me in her stories/books. Loved her The Ten Thousand Doors of January and I already have The Once and Future Witches on my TBR bookshelf and am looking forward to reading it soon.
As for the illustrations in the book. Hmmmm… fascinating. Tad distracting. Definitely not tied in with the story. Lots of headless people. Weird-demented-squirrel-bunny creature thing. The bats at the very end are about the only thing drawn normal. The drawings may have given me slight nightmares… I give the illustrator an A+ for being quite vivid and whimsical in their illustrations.
Quotable Quotes:
“The thing about bad ideas is that they’re contagious.” – page 31
Book:
A Spindle Splintered
Author:
Alix E Harrow
Genre:
Fiction, Fantasy, Romance – Light
My Rating:
5 Stars
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