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A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
2.0

Ahoy there mateys! This was a very interesting modern fairy tale. I really did enjoy the friendship between the main character Zinnia and her best friend Charm. I enjoyed the exploration of the fairy tale tropes and the twists. I like the LGBTQ+ rep. But a lot of this book didn’t work for me. Zinnia did not have much of a personality beyond being a dying-girl. Cell phone work across the multiverses. Too much dropping of pop culture references. The book is clever. I can see that it might be the perfect kind of fairy tale for the younger adult audience. But I was left feeling unsatisfied and sort of bemused for the wrong reasons. Though some of this could be that apparently this is the first book in a series. Or that I never seem to fully connect with Harrow’s work. Arrr!