I think I'd read anything written by Alix E. Harrow and decided to pick up this novella after a book hangover. It's totally different from what I usually read and was refreshing and fun. It's a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, from the perspective of an irreverent 21 year old, Zinnia Gray. Zinnia doesn't expect to live past 21 due to a rare genetic disorder that is specific to her hometown. She's spent her entire life obsessed with the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale and, on her 21st birthday, she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel (I kid you not) and is taken through a series of overlapping realities in order to help save another Sleeping Beauty.

This book made me want to go back to school to study folklore and to read a LOT more fairy tales to my own children. I really only know the Disney version to these stories and am interested in their deep history in culture. So much fun.

Anyway - Alix E. Harrow is working on a whole subversive fairy tale series, so I'm looking forward to more!