About Spinning Thorns by Anna Sheehan
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Author: Anna Sheehan
Length: 354 pages
Publisher: Gollancz
Publication Date: December 10th, 2015
★★★☆☆ 3.88 out of 5 Stars on Goodreads
Spinning Thorns by Anna Sheehan Summary
Sleeping Beauty has woken.
The world has been renewed.
Everyone is living happily ever after . . .
Almost.
Sharp, blood-seeking thorns still surround the castle. A feud remains between those who wield magic and those who were subjected to it. And while the kingdom is divided against itself, nothing can thrive.
A rebellion may be needed – and that’s where Sleeping Beauty’s daughter comes in . . .
More About Anna Sheehan
“To tell of myself:
As Walt Whitman said, “I am large, I contain multitudes!” The epigraph of every writer, really.
I was conceived in northern Alaska, and was born to a bohemian veterinarian mother in a hospital on the shores of Lake Michigan. I endured numerous hellish years of school, and I can say with reasonable veracity that I have forgiven all my teachers and even the poor children who had to figure out how to deal with me.
Instead of a social life, I swam in books. I became a devoted follower of Diana Wynne Jones and Douglas Adams. I studied acting and Shakespeare with the Young Shakespeare Players of Madison, Wisconsin, and it deeply impacted my direction in life. I then discovered historical re-enactment, where I hung about in velvet, idly strumming a harp while men in plastic armor hit each other with sticks. That too was most enlightening.
Despite collecting a technical degree in commercial goldsmithing, I instead pursued writing as my primary means of unemployment. I moved with my family to a tiny ranch in rural Oregon, where I still live with my daughter, my mother, and assorted Irish Wolfhounds.”
What Do Readers Say About Spinning Thorns?
“A wonderful novel [that] made me fall even more in love with Anna Sheehan’s writing. Her stories are original, unsettling (in a good way), thoughtful, and incredibly, achingly human. This is one of the best takes on Sleeping Beauty I’ve come across.” -Kiana @ Of Fact and Fantasy
“Pardon the pun, but this story is woven together seamlessly. I love it. Anna’s best novel yet.” -Ellie Rose McKee
“I am not going to forget that I wasn’t crazy about this story’s beginning. I am however going to say that it does improve in a spectacular way: the sort that leaves you wondering what is going to happen next, when you finally have to go to sleep.” -Susana @ Paperback Wonderland
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