A Spindle Splintered Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Alix E. Harrow (Author), Amy Landon (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher)

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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, author of the Winternight trilogy)

USA Today best-selling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story.

It's Zinnia Gray's 21st 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 21.

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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3 hours and 20 minutes
Author

Alix E. Harrow
Narrator

Amy Landon
Audible release date

Oct. 5 2021
Language

English
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Macmillan Audio
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B08TZS9L9R
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	3 hours and 20 minutes
Author	Alix E. Harrow
Narrator	Amy Landon
Audible.ca Release Date	October 05 2021
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08TZS9L9R
Best Sellers Rank	#31,535 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #55 in LGBTQ2S+ Science Fiction & Fantasy #443 in Dark Fantasy (Audible Books & Originals) #847 in Lesbian Fiction

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Jill Jemmett

Amazing modern fairytale

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 7, 2022

Zinnia Gray never expected to live past her twenty-first birthday. She has a rare medical condition, which destroys her organs. No one with her condition has ever lived to twenty-two. As a child, she became obsessed with Sleeping Beauty, who also had an expiry date on her life. Since it’s Zinnia’s last birthday, her best friend, Charm, throws her a Sleeping Beauty party, that ends in Zinnia pricking her finger and ending up in an alternate universe. Zinnia goes to another version of the Sleeping Beauty story, where she must save the princess to return to her world.

I love any fairy tale themed story so I was excited to read this one. I went into it without knowing what it was going to be about. Zinnia goes into the Sleeping Beauty universe, where all versions of the story live. She had to interact with a few different girls who are living through that storyline.

A big theme of this story was the toxic masculinity surrounding the Sleeping Beauty story. There are versions that are much more terrorizing than the Disney version that we all think of. The whole idea of a woman being awoken by the non-consensual kiss of a man is problematic enough, without looking at other versions where the men did more than that. This story had a good twist on that ending that made it more pleasant and feminist.

A Spindle Splintered was a great modern fairytale. I can’t wait to read the next book in the series!

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Noga Shalev

Original yet classic

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 7, 2021

It's been a long time since I've picked up a fairy tale retelling that I liked so much. Usually, I find some major problems with them, or they're simply too predictable and I slouch through them. But this book was just the perfect combination of classic and original. Instead of the main character going through a traditional Sleeping Beauty arc, she aids another on hers and learns a bit about life along the way.
The characters in this book were all so well developed and perfectly loveable. I thought the author did a really good job writing about Zinnia's illness and how it's affected her. It felt so real and made sense in a way that representation like this usually doesn't. Of course, I have no similar experience of my own to relate it to, so I'm simply going off of my instincts. My one wish is that we got to see more detailed descriptions and experiences and that we had more time to settle into every scene.
I personally listened to the audiobook, something which I highly recommend. The narrator's voice felt perfectly suited to Zinnia and the story and she delivered the perfect amount of expression in her tone. The voices she gave to other characters, for example, Primrose, really added to the experience and made it easier to understand the author's ideas.
Overall, I loved it and cannot wait to see these characters expanded on in the next book.

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Ffiona and Stella

Curious and clever

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 14, 2022

A curious and clever look at Sleeping Beauty that owes as much to Angela Carter and Bruno Bettelheim as it does to Disney. Harrow dives into agency and activism, as seen through the lens of a folktale scholar who finds parallels between the lives of passive, sleeping princesses and her struggle with her own terminal illness. The voice is wry, so it's worth going in expecting some quippy sarcasm rather than the lyrical language of A Thousand Doors, but the themes are similar and the exploration of our relationship to oft-retold stories continues. In some ways, the book made me long for a fully fleshed out novel, as this barely touched the surface of its central topics, and the characters didn't have much space to develop, but in other ways, I enjoyed the tightness of the story, and I remain a fan of Harrow's writing, which is always original and makes me think as well as imagine.

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Fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 15, 2022

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An excerpt as to why I love this book "Unless we change them. Unless we grab our narratives by the ear and drag them kicking and screaming toward better endings. Maybe the universe doesn’t naturally bend toward justice either; maybe it’s only the weight of hands and hearts pulling it true, inch by stubborn inch."
Impossible odds,melancholy and magic. Read this book.

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Janey

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 7, 2022

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I love fairy tale reimaginings and this is really great, can't wait for the sequel!

Gabriela Santiago

light and fun

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on August 31, 2022

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this was great! i was in the mood for a short and funny read, and this delivered! not sure if it needs a sequel but i will be reading the next installment anyways because i enjoyed the characters :)

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Smells like roses, hooks its thorns right into your skin to not let go until you finished

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on October 21, 2021

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One of my favourite authors of all time, Alix E. Harrow does it once again. Her books all feel like fairytales and while in a modern setting this one just feels like one of the stories of Grimm or Anderson. Extremely magical, queer and breathtaking.

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Tierarztpraxis Janitza

Entäuschend

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on October 26, 2021

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Nach den 10.000 Türen..und The once and future witches ist man mit einer Erwartungshaltung an das Buch gegangen, die nur enttäuscht wurde. Was war denn das? Man fragte sich beständig , wo die Story kommt. Insgesamt unsinnig und überflüssig! Schade um die Zeit !

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