Reading: A Spindle Splintered

When Zinnia Gray, the heroine of Alix E. Harrow's novella A Spindle Splintered, pricks her finger on the spindle of an antique spinning wheel at the Sleeping Beauty-themed birthday party her best friend throws her, she isn't expecting anything to happen. She certainly isn't expecting to find herself pulled from her Midwestern home to a fairytale kingdom where another young woman is about to prick her finger on another spinning wheel, fulfilling a curse laid on her at birth. Armed only with a degree in folklore and an arsenal of pop-culture references, Zinnia sets out to save the princess and change her story. This multiverse take on fairytales is great fun, and very funny in places. It's also illustrated throughout with Arthur Rackham-esque silhouettes for a real fairytale feel.