A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series! 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? A Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com Imprint.
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"It's funny, sharp, queer, and deeply loves its source material...This novella pushes against the hopelessness of inevitability; it dares us to believe in sympathetic magic; it tells us we're connected through story. It might dent your heart a little, but it's good fun."
— NPR
A Goodreads Most Anticipated Summer Read!
A Paste Magazine Best New Fantasy of 2022!
A lively, engaging fairy-tale retelling perfect for devouring in a single sitting.
— Kirkus ReviewsSeries fans and lovers of fractured fairy tales will find plenty to hold their attention.
— Publishers WeeklyReaders who love stories that twist narratives into knots will fall for Harrow’s fractured fairy tale
— Library JournalZinnia is a wonderfully unique figure in the long tradition of bibliofantasy: a reluctant heroine whose superpower doesn’t derive from spindles or mirrors, but from skillfully deconstructing the very stories she’s in.
— LocusA vivid, subversive and feminist reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, where implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness and a good working knowledge of fairy tales.
— Katherine Arden, bestselling author of the Winternight trilogyAn exceptional heroine, smart writing, and a winning plot.
— Nancy PearlLike Into the Spider-Verse for Disney princesses, A Spindle Splintered is a delightful mash-up featuring Alix E. Harrow’s trademark beautiful prose and whip-smart characters.
— Mike Chen, author of Here and Now and ThenA wonderfully imaginative, and Queer as hell, tale for those who wish to be the authors of their own stories.
— Kalynn Bayron, author of Cinderella is DeadThis is a self-aware, empowered riff on Sleeping Beauty that manages to be thrilling, funny, smart, and sweet.
— Sarah Pinsker, Nebula Award-winning author of A Song for a New Day“Alix Harrow takes traditional fairy tales, turns them inside out, then upside down, and uses them to kick ass. Brava!
— Ellen Klages, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea and Passing StrangeHarrow creates a lush and magical world with well-developed characters who are easy to love and root for.
— School Library Journal, starred reviewThemes of female friendship, female strength, and female independence leave good feels behind, not to mention some laugh-out-loud bits...This fairy tale–superhero movie mashup is pure entertainment.
— Kirkus ReviewsBest-selling author Harrow revives and rejuvenates the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with a feminist twist in her latest... Harrow uses her excellent skill as a storyteller to give agency back to the passive princess.
— BooklistAccompanied by Arthur Rackham's original illustrations, this quick read is a must for fairy-tale readers.
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Alix E. Harrow, a former academic, is a Hugo-award winning writer. She is the author of three novels in the Fractured Fables series, three stand-alone novels, novellas, and short stories. Her works have been finalists for the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, and others. Find her on Twitter.
Amy Landon, Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a voice artist and classically trained actress with numerous film, television, and off-Broadway stage credits. Her voice can also be heard on many television and radio commercials. She has an easy facility with dialects, which she also coaches and teaches, and she is happy to find her lifelong obsession with books pairing up with her acting and vocal work. Her narration of Texts from Jane Eyre placed as a finalist for the Audie Award for Best Humor Narration in 2016.