![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. It’s Zinnia Gray’s twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it’s the last birthday she’ll ever have. Cover art and design by David Curtis, based on Arthur Rackham’s original illustrations of The Sleeping Beauty Here the “Sleeping Beauty” story is front and center as the Fable she examines and honors. Harrow turns her focus to a shorter, though no less potent tale, with A Spindle Splintered, which launches a new series she calls Fractured Fables. Alix Harrow is a writer whose work has shown the power of story, I’ve read both of her novels ( The Ten Thousand Doors of January and The Once and Future Witches) and that love of story and respect for story are what shines through as a common thread between those two novels. ![]()
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