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Title: Spindle ends...finally
Review: You know how you think you don't like Thai food, or MacDonalds, or crayfish; and then you go for ages without eating any and you think, "Hey, maybe I'm remembering it wrong" and you try it again and go 'OK, so THAT's why I don't like Thai food." This is how Spindle's End made me feel about YA historical fantasy. I *love* retold fairy tales, and Sleeping Beauty is one of my favourites, but this is so muddled up and tangled with clauses and double-negatives and just plain dull writing that I couldn't enjoy it. Also, nothing dark or sexy about it, without which retold fairy tales are just..fairy tales. Unlike say,Happy Ever After (Definitions)which was a least very cute and clever, there's just nothing here outside the cliches. I don't mind books that are frustrating or disturbing, but being boring is just a deal-breaker. I coudlnt' wait to reach the end of this particular spindle.
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