A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow

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hardcover 130 pages

From the Publisher:
Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues.

Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because there’s more than one person trapped in a story they didn’t choose. Snow White's Evil Queen has found out how her story ends and she's desperate for a better ending. She wants Zinnia to help her before it’s too late for everyone.

Will Zinnia accept the Queen's poisonous request, and save them both from the hot iron shoes that wait for them, or will she try another path?

This is so good! It’s a super-fast, action packed novella that is full of heart. It’s delightfully snarky, a little sad, and very sapphic. I loved A Spindle Splintered and this is a perfect follow-up to our intrepid fairy-tale explorer’s story. Zinnia is a very chaotic character and her journey is not an easy one, but there are still plenty of light and humorous moments to keep the story from being depressing. There may or may not be a scene with an orchard that had me giggling like crazy…

If you’re looking for something quick and entertaining, this book is perfect. Because it’s summer and hot and who wants to hold a massive book? This is light, super portable, and can be finished in just a couple of hours.

If you’d like to add this fractured fairy-tale to your shelf, you can click on the cover above or here for more ordering information. I was lucky enough to find this at my local Library and if you haven’t done so yet, join your Library’s Summer Reading Program! I have a book and a tote bag waiting for me to pick up because this little novella bumped me up the next prize tier!

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