This version of Sleeping Beauty is wide awake, and knows what to do with that spindle
Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered gives us a Sleeping Beauty for today, cursed not by an evil fairy but by an industrial accident, and yanked into another dimension where she must save a princess.
In Alix Harrow's books, women move between worlds, sometimes because they find enchanted doors (The Ten Thousand Doors of January), sometimes because they rediscover and rekindle ancient magics (The Once and Future Witches), and sometimes because their own story echoes an archetypal story — and they want more from destiny.
In , that archetypal story is "Sleeping Beauty," and protagonist Zinnia Gray has been drawn to it since she was
