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USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow s A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham s original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. A 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. It s Zinnia Gray s twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special becauseit s the last birthday she ll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia s last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty,just as desperate to escape her fate —