fractured fables – Cannonball Read 17

“You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go.”

A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

August 23, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

So is this the last one of these then? It was a really good ending, if so. It’s been five years since we last saw Zinnia Gray, and she’s spent that time hopping from world to world, fixing fairytales, and helping princesses, sometimes realizing they don’t need help at all. But Zinnia is beginning to realize she’s running from her own life. She hasn’t spoken to Charm or Prim (who are now married) in six months. She’s avoidance denialing. That’s when she’s pulled through a […]

it’s a good thing when your biggest complaint is that you wanted more book

A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow

August 11, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

The thought that sticks with me: I really, really wish that Harrow would combine these books into one proper sit down novel that includes the interstitial bits which we only hear about in passing. We meet Zinnia Grey, formerly ‘dying girl’ turned into intrepid multiverse Sleeping Beauty saver. She’s made a job (of sorts) out of jumping from one Sleeping Beauty story to another, trying to help each Aurora escape whatever evil they’re trapped within. In one passage, Harrow does what probably cost the MCU […]

Into the Sleeping Beauty-Verse.

A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1) by Alix E. Harrow

December 8, 2021 by narfna 6 Comments

This was so fun! I didn’t actually know what this book was really about going in. I knew it was a Sleeping Beauty retelling, and that Alix E. Harrow wrote it, and that was all I needed. So the actual premise was surprising and refreshing! There’s definitely a reason the title for this series of novellas is ‘Fractured Fables.’ Harrow notes in her afterword, she pitched this book to her editor as “I want to Spider-Verse some fairy-tales.” I mean, who can’t get behind that? […]

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