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Alix E. Harrow

Autore di The Ten Thousand Doors of January

19+ opere 8,211 membri 415 recensioni 6 preferito

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Apex Magazine 105 (February 2018) (2018) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019 Edition (2019) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Multiverses: An anthology of alternate realities (2023) — Collaboratore — 19 copie
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Nebula Awards Showcase 54 (2020) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Shimmer 2015: The Collected Stories (2016) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
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The Year's Best Fantasy, Volume Two (2023) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Strange Horizons, January 12 2015 (2015) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Heintzman, Alix
Data di nascita
1989-11-09
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di residenza
Berea, Kentucky, USA
Agente
Kate McKean

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I love this book! It’s original, and beautifully crafted, with moments of sassy humor and heartbreaking tragedy. It’s set in a universe not quite just around the corner from ours – a universe that had its Seneca Falls Conference and 1890s Suffragette Movement, its own Chicago Pullman strike and its own Eugene Debs, but it's also a universe where the Sisters Grimm and Charlene Parreau collect fairy tales for children that may hold the ancient witchways hidden in their nursery stories and pat-a-cake rhymes. It’s a universe in which three sisters (it’s always three, you know) reunite after crimes and betrayals too dark to reveal, driven by righteous anger to try to revive the ancient arts. They are attracted at first to the independent spirit and feeling of sisterhood rising in the Suffragette movement, surely a match made in neither heaven nor hell, but possibly in some little pocket of reality that can be reached only through the rabbit hole.

Harrow is deft and sure-footed as she weaves a tale as compelling as any fairy-tale enchantment, uncovering layer after layer of the sisters’ characters as they move deeper and deeper into the battle to take charge of their own lives and their own destinies. They are helped, eventually, by other women (and A Few Good Men) who live in the New Salem of this universe – a city of rigidly gridded streets and determinedly upright citizens, who are nevertheless haunted by the heritage of their Old Salem, a city burned to ashes to rid itself of the stain of witchcraft. And yet there is something nasty and evil creeping around the edges of all this self-righteous purity, and the nascent coven, which names itself the Sisters of Avalon, quickly attract both its attention and its enmity.

Drawing both on the classic precepts of witchcraft and on the richly symbolic fabric of fairy tales and children’s rhymes, Harrow creates a tapestry both complex and compelling, with characters the reader can’t help rooting for. There are all sorts of surprises lurking in the corners, some great fun (who are those two sisters, Victoria and Tennessee, who show up from time to time?), some deeply hidden under two or three layers of deception, and some that present themselves as obvious to anyone familiar with what is popularly accepted as the lore of The Craft.

This is an ambitious and polished work, and not one that can be whizzed through over a long weekend. The reader will find total immersion here, and an unwillingness to put the book down to return to the mundane world. One might even say it’s almost as if the book were … well, enchanted might not be too strong a term.
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LyndaInOregon | 82 altre recensioni | Mar 27, 2024 |
Long terminally ill Zinnia has been fixing versions of her own tale, Sleeping Beauty, but things are getting askew when she is hijacked into Snow White by a nameless evil stepmother queen who wants out before being forced to dance in hot iron shoes. Maybe evil queens have as little agency as narcoleptic princesses and Zinnia needs to reevaluate her own actions when confronted by the consequences.
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quondame | 36 altre recensioni | Mar 21, 2024 |
A Mirror Mended picks up where Alix E. Harrow's similarly excellent A Spindle Splintered leaves off: with protagonist Zinnia Gray hopping across the fairy-tale-verse rescuing various iterations of Sleeping Beauty, not least by giving them agency in their own narratives.

But then, through a mirror, Zinnia is drawn into a Snow White tale. That's a twist. Zinnia promptly gets captured by and forms a crush on a villain who may not fully be a villain, finds out that the innocent may not be so innocent after all, and learns that being hero doesn't mean going solo but involves a community of friends.

Brimming with pop-cultural and academic references, and moments of genuine emotion and insight, A Mirror Mended is a brief but rich and rewarding book. Protagonist-narrator Zinnia is snarky and smart and self-doubting and absolutely wonderful. I can only hope that Harrow will write a third Fractured Fable.
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LordSlaw | 36 altre recensioni | Mar 5, 2024 |
What an interesting book. I’d recommended it to some but not everyone. I felt the writing was a tad dense. But overall I enjoyed the story of Opal and Arthur. My favorite thing about the writing was the way the author was capable of bringing this entire house and story world into some tangible through the senses.
 
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spaceysloth | 36 altre recensioni | Mar 4, 2024 |

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Utenti
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Popolarità
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Voto
4.0
Recensioni
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ISBN
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Lingue
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