Ebook {Epub PDF} Spindles End by Robin McKinley

 · Spindle's End by Robin McKinley. Summary: When the evil fairy Pernicia lays her seemingly fatal curse upon the infant princess, the royal child's nanny entrusts the baby to Katriona--an orphan brought up by her powerful fairy aunt--to rear in the safety of her distant, cloistered village. In one of the many sequences that endow this novel with mythic grandeur, Katriona and her charge travel Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown and a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword. Her other books include Sunshine ; the New York Times bestseller Spindle's End ; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and Rose Daughter ; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, The Outlaws of /5().  · Published: June 5th by Ace Books Goodreads synopsis Review: Myth: 1/5 I’m not a huge fan of Sleeping Beauty, but I gave this retelling a try. A few of the things that didn’t work for me, it really threw me how much time was spent with a character for the first third of the book, (t.

Robin McKinley is one of my very favourite authors, and I'd like to say this is my favourite of her books, but in all honesty I can't choose between them. Whimsical, magical, gently humoured but not without tension and threat, I love all of her novels. Spindle's End is a wonderful retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, filled in and. Spindle's End Summary Spindle's End by Robin McKinley. The princess has been missing since she was a baby. And Rosie, an ordinary girl, is growing up in an unremarkable little village far away from the royal city. nremarkable, that is, in a land where magic is so common that it settles over everything like dust. But a fairy curse is the kind of. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: Spindle's End is long and leisurely-paced, but I found it an absorbing retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, with fascinating details and appealing animals (Robin McKinley excels at both of those things) and a few major twists to the classic story. I enjoyed it enough to reread it at least two or three times in the last 20 years since.

Robin McKinley established herself as a fairy tale author with her first book, "Beauty," over 20 years ago. Her growth as a writer is evident in her new tome, "Spindle's End." McKinley leaves behind Beauty and the Beast, which she has developed in two novels, to explore the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. Published: June 5th by Ace Books Goodreads synopsis Review: Myth: 1/5 I’m not a huge fan of Sleeping Beauty, but I gave this retelling a try. A few of the things that didn’t work for me, it really threw me how much time was spent with a character for the first third of the book, (t. In McKinley's version of the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, a wicked fairy named Pernicia appears on the princess' name-day and places a curse on the baby, claiming that the child will, on her 21st birthday, prick her finger on a spindle and fall into deathly sleep. The cursed princess is rescued on her name-day and secretly taken away by a young fairy, Katriona, to her village, a town called Foggy Bottom, located in the damp and swampy section of the country known as The Gig.