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Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
4.5
adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I really loved this retelling of the sleeping beauty story. Toadling is such an interesting character! Braiding Toadling's childhood into the interplay between the changeling and the foundling and her telling both stories to the gentle knight is a very neat way of revealing the story to the reader layer by layer. I love a character with atypical perceptions of what it means to be beautiful, and Toadling's love for the Green Teeth, especially the eldest for her size, glory, and skill, is one of my favorite ways in which a character has equated love with beauty.

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