Who knows? Either way, the thing is that, along the way to the map, Fi pricks her finger on a bone spindle and ends up waking Prince Briar Rose.

It follows Fi, a treasure hunter, and Shane, a fierce warrior with an axe, who team up to find a map. The book is, at its core, a genderbent version of Sleeping Beauty. Including, but not limited, to the kind of partners that start hating each other and end up willing to die for each other, something that either really, really works, or really, really doesn’t, but here it just clicks. But there’s still a certain comfort to reading this book, like by making a mashup of different genres and stories, Leslie Vedder has actually managed a mashup of things we like. There’s enough fairy-tale in this that it doesn’t feel like any other book you’ve read before. You know, the ones that actually include feelings. Reading The Bone Spindle feels, at times, like you’re caught in one of those interminable action sequences in the middle of one of those modern action films. I would have to wait, just like everyone else. And then, afterwards, I kind of paused and thought about how the worst part about getting ARCs to review is that there was no sequel I could just look up. I didn’t sleep, I just kept on reading till I was done. No one’s eating anything on a plane these days, so it’s just sleeping and reading.Įxcept I couldn’t put the book down. I picked up The Bone Spindle to read on a plane, the kind of book you take with you because you think you’ll manage a few chapters, then fall asleep, then hopefully a few more chapters after you get up.

Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and All the Stars and Teeth: The Bone Spindle, by Leslie Vedder.

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