A mirror mended

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Title:

A mirror mended

Author:

Harrow, Alix E., author.

Rogers, Michael (Illustrator), illustrator.

Series Number:

Summary:

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? -- Amazon.

General Note:

Series numeration from www.goodreads.com.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

130 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Adaptations.

Subject Term:

Fairy tales -- Adaptations.

Snow White (Tale) -- Fiction.

Princesses -- Fiction.

Queens -- Fiction.

Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Rogers, Michael (Illustrator),

Publisher:

Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book,

Publication Date:

2022

ISBN:

9781250766649

Publication Information:

New York : Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022.

Call Number:

HARROW

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Summary

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series.

Finalist for the Hugo Award!

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?

Author Notes

A former academic and adjunct, Alix E. Harrow is now a full-time writer living in Virginia with her husband and their semi-feral toddlers. In 2019 she won a Hugo Award for her short fiction and published her first novel, The Ten Thousand Doors of January .

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Zinnia Gray isn't the damsel in distress anymore in Harrow's fast-paced and snarky sequel to A Spindle Splintered. Zinnia has spent the five years between volumes jumping through different "Sleeping Beauty" tales to free the eponymous princesses from their destinies. But at the end of her most recent rescue, Zinnia's pulled through the narrative multiverse and into a different tale: "Snow White." Zinnia knows how the story should go, but the evil queen has other ideas. She wants out, and she thinks Zinnia can help her. While Zinnia's trapped with the evil queen in a dark and dangerous world, a startling consequence of her story-hopping comes to light, making it more important than ever that she find a way back home. The barrage of pop culture references is just as relentless here as in book one, which may overwhelm some readers, but all will be pleased to see Zinnia grow into herself, and the unapologetic focus on queer relationships delights. Series fans and lovers of fractured fairy tales will find plenty to hold their attention. (Jun.)

Library Journal Review

In her second "Fractured Fables" installment (after A Spindle Splintered), Harrow drops her protagonist, Zinnia Gray, into someone else's fairy tale. Zinnia has been traveling through space and time, helping other Sleeping Beauties progress in their stories, but she's getting a little tired of it all. When she looks into a mirror and sees another woman looking back at her, Zinnia is dropped into the world of Snow White and finds herself helping the Evil Queen (Eva) avoid her traditional end. The two women form a strong bond as they navigate the challenges of being trapped by their roles in the narrative, dealing with a Snow White who's up to some extremely unsavory business, and trying to find their places in the fairy tale multiverse. Amy Landon narrates, doing a terrific job with characterizing the wide variety of characters. VERDICT Fans of fairy tale retellings who are familiar with the premises established in the first book will most enjoy this quick, fun listen. An essential purchase for collections where the previous installment circulates well.--Stephanie Klose