The Bone Spindle
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Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling gender-swapping fairytale retelling, where two kickass heroines are ready to save a cursed prince and his kingdom with true love’s kiss.
“An enchanting read for fans of fairy-tale romance and girls with battle axes.”—Kirkus Reviews
“This gender-flipped retelling effortlessly melds romance, adventure, and fantasy. Highly recommended.”—School Library Journal, starred review
Some curses are meant to be broken.
Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles who definitely doesn’t believe in true love.
Shane is a tough-as-dirt warrior who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way.
Briar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse who’s been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him.
Cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to Fi—until she pricks her finger on a bone spindle while exploring a long-lost ruin. Now she’s stuck with the spirit of Briar Rose until she and Shane can break the century-old curse on his kingdom.
Dark magic, Witch Hunters, and bad exes all stand in her way—not to mention a mysterious Witch who might wind up stealing Shane’s heart along with whatever else she’s after. But nothing scares Fi more than the possibility of falling in love with Briar Rose.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Debut author Vedder's action-packed, gender-flipped "Sleeping Beauty" reenvisioning, a series opener, pits two female outlaws against a witch's ominous curse. A century before this title's start, the King of Andar banished the ancient Spindle Witch for saving sickly prince Briar Rose at the cost of his mother's life—and her revenge cursed Briar into deathless sleep, destroying Andar. When 17-year-old treasure hunter Lady Filore Nenroa pricks her finger on the bone spindle that cursed him, she's bonded via dreams to his rare, precious light magic. Fi and queer, axe-wielding, boot-wearing huntswoman Shane must traverse the Forest of Thorns to wake Briar with true love's kiss despite the bigoted Witch Hunters dogging them, the curse Fi's controlling ex-lover inflicted on her, and Shane's crush on mysterious Red. But the Spindle Witch has dark plans for Briar—and true love might not thwart them. Video game-style fantasy tropes and energetic plotting provide an alternative to Forgotten Realms and David Eddings for new readers of epic fantasy. Ages 12–up.
