Spindle's End
An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss. Rosie is very, very ordinary. No-one, not even an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's blood, would give...
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An exceptional retelling of The Sleeping Beauty which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss. Rosie is very, very ordinary. No-one, not even an extremely powerful and evil fairy who is out for the princess's blood, would give Rosie a second glance. But then, even Rosie doesn't know the secret of her own birth...and she cannot be hidden forever as her twenty-first birthday approaches. The curse placed on her at her christening will hunt her down through the years, gathering strength, and at some point a princess must become a queen, even if she would rather just stay ordinary...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385604192 (038560419X)
Publish date: April 1st 2002
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Series: Folktales (#3)
Robin McKinley is probably my favorite author of full length fairy tale retellings.
Remember that great, big, volume of fairytales that lies forlornly at the top of your bookshelf, gathering dust? Well it’s time to dust off the cobwebs, as Robin McKinley’s novel Spindle’s End re-nurtures your love for the classics.Spindle’s End is a beautifully written re-telling of Sleeping Beauty...
I’m not too familiar with the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. I saw the Disney movie once as a kid and I’m familiar with the general idea of the story. Since I don’t know the fairy tale as well as other fairy tales I can’t say how good of a retelling this book is.I liked the writing. Everything had love...
Review originally posted at: http://thebookpushers.com/2012/04/09/fantasy-celebration-review-spindles-end-by-robin-mckinley/Publisher: Ace BooksPublish Date: 2000How I got this book: PurchasedAll the creatures of forest, field and riverbank knew the baby was special. She was the princess Briar-Rose,...
The worst book I've ever read. I'd stay away from it if I were you.