It’s the day you’ve all undoubtedly been waiting for! That is, it’s The Bone Spindle‘s book birthday! If you haven’t been excited about this one I am forced to assume you’ve been living under a rock. I mean, what could be better than Sleeping Beauty crossed with Indiana Jones? Nothing, I tell you. But if, for whatever ungodly reason, you’re still on the fence about this one, let me try convince you with this review!
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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 girl warrior from the north 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.
The Bone Spindle
Leslie Vedder
Rep: lesbian mc, sapphic li
Release: 11th January 2022
Five Reasons to Read This Book
One. If ever, as a kid, you read those famous action and adventure stories (I’m thinking Hardy Boys, Willard Price, Biggles—okay maybe this is just me), and you a) wanted girls to be at the centre of them, and later, b) wanted LGBT folks to star in those hero roles, then this book is for you. It’s Indiana Jones-slash-Lara Croft, crossed with Sleeping Beauty, and it’s about as fast-paced and action-packed, wildly adventurous, as you would expect from those comparisons.
Two. Shane is so good that she deserves her own point, to be honest. Ever wondered what would happen if you crossed a lesbian with a himbo? Well, Shane is your answer. Why be a lesbian with a himbo, when you can be a lesbian and a himbo.
Three. If you like books (or duologies/other length series) that take what you know, at some unspecified point, and twist it all up and make you wonder if you ever knew anything really, then I’m not saying you should specifically pick this book up, but I’m not not saying it. Basically, this book has a great ending, one that makes your heart beat just a little faster, and one that sets everything up for a great sequel.
Four. It was an interesting twist on the Sleeping Beauty, where it’s a prince who is bespelled to be asleep and distinctly not a princess is on a quest to rescue him. I mean, really, don’t we all love fantasy novels where the focus is on normal people (insofar as someone who does magic counts as normal to us), rather than the rich and/or powerful? This one delivers.
Five. There’s a nice balance between building a world that leaps off the page and keeping the story going, overall. As I said before, it’s fast-paced, but it still manages to worldbuild successfully alongside that. And it’s a very interesting world as well, one that leaves you with just enough questions that you think, huh, maybe these parts that look quite a bit like foreshadowing will become plot relevant later on. Which, really, is the best part of worldbuilding.
So, have we convinced you that you want to read this book?
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