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Title: Spindle's End: Robin McKinley
Review: Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the most passive fairy tale heroine. She is threatened, pricks her finger, sleeps for a long time and wakes up in time to get married. A lovely, languid lady whose role in the tale is simply to lie there.Not Rosie, the threatened princess of "Spindle's End". She has far better things to do with her time and an attractive cast of characters to assist her.This is another marvellous effort by McKinley, both enchanting and convincing. The author has that certain rare talent of constructing a world which is truly 'faerie', instead of extruded fantasy product. Compelling, delightful and completely satisfying.
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