A Spindle Splintered

"Zinnia is cursed, not by fairy and spindle, but by a corporation and a genetic disease that will kill her before she’s 22. She’s always felt a connection to the Sleeping Beauty tale – and on her 21st birthday, staring down the barrel of inevitability, she’s suddenly transported to a storybook otherworld, where another sleeping beauty is trying to escape her story. Cue quest, spanning worlds. I adore how Alix Harrow tells stories about story, dredging myth from mundanity, giving us women who save each other. A Spindle Splintered is unapologetically self-aware, but also earnestly romantic. It doesn’t flinch from darkness, and Zinnia’s voice is worth reading."