Jul 2

Jul 2 A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

Author: Alix E. Harrow
Publisher: Tordotcom
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Cover Description

***Description is spoiler for A Spindle Splintered***

Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues.

Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because there’s more than one person trapped in a story they didn’t choose. Snow White's Evil Queen has found out how her story ends, and she's desperate for a better ending. She wants Zinnia to help her before it’s too late for everyone. Will Zinnia accept the Queen's poisonous request and save them both from the hot-iron shoes that wait for them, or will she try another path?

TL;DR Review

A Mirror Mended is a great sequel to A Spindle Splintered. I loved the growth for our friend Zinnia Gray. These novellas are just so fun and badass and heartwarming!

For you if: You like fairy tales and sapphic fantasy.

Full Review

Good news: If you loved A Spindle Splintered, you’re going to love A Mirror Mended, too. This novella duology is about a girl named Zinnia Gray, a young woman living with a terminal illness. In A Spindle Splintered, she finds herself suddenly transported into the Sleeping Beauty story, with the woman in question in need of saving. No spoilers, but in this second book, we’re back with Zinnia as she fairy-tale-hops — but is she being noble, or running from something? And what if this time, she’s wrong about who needs saving?

This duology is just so fun and badass and heartwarming (and sapphic!). And at novella length, they’re the perfect quick, light reads when you need something to escape the world. I loved the way Alix Harrow turned fairy tales on their heads, loved the sharp, hilarious banter between characters, loved Zinnia and her growth arc in this second book. You really just can’t go wrong picking these up — they’re more than worth the couple of hours it will take to breeze through them!