As she is one of my most favorite authors, I did a little happy dance when I was approved to have a review copy of this book.
I did expect to read it and review it a little sooner, but uh… well, it’s been a year, let us say.
Thanks to the author, as well as Tor for the review copy!
There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?
But nothing with fairies is ever simple.
Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He’s heard there’s a curse here that needs breaking, but it’s a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…
Thornhedge is the story of Toadling, who is a changeling Fey woman who is predisposed to change into a toad. She guards a tower surrounded by a giant hedge of thorns (as you would imagine) and she scares off visitors who may try to get into the tower. because what’s in the tower is not great.
One day a Knight by the name of Halim comes to the hedge and everything changes from there.
Thornhedge is a novella, so it’s just a little bite size story, and a sleeping beauty retelling that is completely unique and how it imagines the story of sleeping beauty.
Like any other T. Kingfisher book, I enjoyed myself quite a lot with Thornhedge. I would recommend it to anyone that likes fairy tale retellings or is just a fan of T. Kingfisher in general because this one is just as good as her others. 4.5/5 stars!
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