About Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer
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Author: Lexa Hillyer
Series: Spindle Fire #1
Length: 351 pages
Audiobook Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: April 11th, 2017
★★★☆☆ 3.45 out of 5 Stars on Goodreads
Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer Summary
A kingdom burns. A princess sleeps. This is no fairy tale.
It all started with the burning of the spindles.
No.
It all started with a curse…
Half sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king’s headstrong illegitimate daughter, whose sight was tithed by faeries; Aurora, beautiful and sheltered, was tithed her sense of touch and her voice on the same day. Despite their differences, the sisters have always been extremely close.
And then everything changes, with a single drop of Aurora’s blood—and a sleep so deep it cannot be broken.
As the faerie queen and her army of Vultures prepare to march, Isabelle must race to find a prince who can awaken her sister with the kiss of true love and seal their two kingdoms in an alliance against the queen.
Isabelle crosses land and sea; unearthly, thorny vines rise up the palace walls; and whispers of revolt travel in the ashes on the wind. The kingdom falls to ruin under layers of snow. Meanwhile, Aurora wakes up in a strange and enchanted world, where a mysterious hunter may be the secret to her escape…or the reason for her to stay.
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More About Lexa Hillyer
Lexa Hillyer is the Founder and President of Publishing at Glasstown Entertainment, an all-womxn creative development and production company located in New York and Los Angeles. She is also the author of Frozen Beauty, Spindle Fire, Winter Glass, and Proof of Forever, all young adult novels published by HarperCollins, as well as the poetry collection Acquainted with the Cold from Bona Fide Books. Acquainted with the Cold was the 2012 gold prize winner of the Foreword Book of the Year Award for Poetry and received the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize.
Her work has been featured in a variety of journals and collections including Best New Poets 2012, and she has received several honors for poetry. Lexa earned her BA in English from Vassar College and her MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. She worked as an editor at both HarperCollins and Penguin, before founding Glasstown Entertainment along with New York Times Bestselling author Lauren Oliver. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter and their very skinny orange tree.
What Do Readers Say About Spindle Fire?
“I liked seeing a different kind of [Sleeping Beauty] retelling play out and I have high hopes for the sequel since this story reached an exciting point by the end. I am eager to see where Hillyer will take our characters next.” -Rachel @ Typed Truths
“I love this gorgeous fantasy novel, the first of two books. I thought it was going to be a Sleeping Beauty retelling with a couple twists but instead it’s a strong reimagining that includes badass faeries, a narwhal attack that still gives me chills, a dream world with frights, and a tale of sisterhood. This is Aurora like you’ve never seen her before, along with a sister Isabelle you’ve never met. Pumped for the sequel! If you’re a fan of Marissa Meyer’s HEARTLESS or the faeries in books by Holly Black and Sarah J. Maas, you’re going to fall in love with this one.” –Adam Silvera, author of They Both Die at the End
“I highly recommend this one if you like sisterly love, cool dream worlds, and fairy take retellings.” -Jesse Nicholas @ Books At Dawn
“The world building was A+ particularly the faeries and their fall from positions of power as well as their need to tithe. This re-telling is unique, creative, and the story itself was enjoyable…” -Lily @ Lair of Books
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