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Of course, where magic is possible, Zinnia begins to hope that perhaps there's a solution for her own "curse." Together, they attempt to save Primrose from her curse and return Zinnia to her world (with a little help from Charm, whom Zinnia can still reach via cell phone). Primrose is a quintessential gorgeous Storybook Princess whose narrative seems all set to match most of the beats we associate with the tale: castle, roses, bad fairy, enchanted sleep.īook Reviews You'll Want To Open Every One Of 'The Ten Thousand Doors Of January' She tells them to stop, and when one girl does, saying "Help," she yanks Zinnia from Ohio to Primrose's fairy tale kingdom. Zinnia stabs her finger on the spindle and sees a vision of many girls, different girls, all reaching for the inevitability of that spindle. When Zinnia's best friend Charm throws her a Sleeping Beauty-themed 21st birthday party in an old tower - complete with actual spinning wheel - she's in a strange headspace. But unlike Sleeping Beauty, Zinnia isn't "suffering from a curse so much as fatal teratogenic damage caused by corporate malfeasance." There's been an industrial accident, and no one born with what the book calls Generalized Roseville Malady reaches 22.

So much so, that she graduated early from high school and earned a degree in folklore studies from Ohio University, all before turning 21. In A Spindle Splintered, that archetypal story is "Sleeping Beauty," and protagonist Zinnia Gray has been drawn to it since she was a kid. In Alix Harrow's books, women move between worlds, sometimes because they find enchanted doors ( The Ten Thousand Doors of January), sometimes because they rediscover and rekindle ancient magics ( The Once and Future Witches), and sometimes because their own story echoes an archetypal story - and they want more from destiny.