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Spindle's End
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bookshelves: fantasy, young-adult, fairy-tales
Mar 31, 2008
bookshelves: fantasy, young-adult, fairy-tales
Read 2 times. Last read January 1, 2004.
Spindle's End is a re-telling of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. I love many of McKinley's other "re-telling" stories, like Beauty and The Outlaws of Sherwood. The first three-quarters of this book are no exception.
The characters are engaging. The description of life in the little community where Rose (Sleeping Beauty) grows up is so idyllic that you want the book to keep going just so you can read about the town.
Unfortunately, the last quarter almost does the book in. The magic in this book shows no particular rhyme or reason, which makes it harder to suspend disbelief. The magic in the last quarter of the book, surrounding the climax, is thick and plentiful. Since the magic seems to follow no rules, the result is rather like I imagine a bad trip on acid would be. It reminds me rather unfavorably of Alice in Wonderland, a book that I have never managed to get through even half of.
Thankfully, the climax of this book is short enough that I could get to the happy ending.
The characters are engaging. The description of life in the little community where Rose (Sleeping Beauty) grows up is so idyllic that you want the book to keep going just so you can read about the town.
Unfortunately, the last quarter almost does the book in. The magic in this book shows no particular rhyme or reason, which makes it harder to suspend disbelief. The magic in the last quarter of the book, surrounding the climax, is thick and plentiful. Since the magic seems to follow no rules, the result is rather like I imagine a bad trip on acid would be. It reminds me rather unfavorably of Alice in Wonderland, a book that I have never managed to get through even half of.
Thankfully, the climax of this book is short enough that I could get to the happy ending.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
(Paperback Edition)
Started Reading
January 1, 2004
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Finished Reading
March 31, 2008
– Shelved
March 31, 2008
– Shelved as:
fantasy
March 31, 2008
– Shelved as:
young-adult
August 14, 2010
– Shelved as:
fairy-tales
December 1, 2013
– Shelved as:
books-i-own
(Paperback Edition)
December 1, 2013
– Shelved
(Paperback Edition)
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Feb 17, 2013 06:05PM
Wow. Just wrote my review and then looked over the extant ones and found yours. You said almost the exact same thing I did. I feel strangely comforted to know that I am not the only one with this reaction to the book!
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