REVIEW: THE SLEEPER AND THE SPINDLE

THE SLEEPER AND THE SPINDLE
By Neil Gaiman
illustrated by Chris Riddell

I've got the Spanish edition of this book!

What happens after happy ever after?
Snow White is now queen after her stepmother is gone, about to be married and crowned, with her seven faithful dwarves for a council.
Then she gets to hear of the kingdom across the mountains, whose entire court was plunged by enchantment into a deep, lasting sleep.
And in a bedchamber frozen in time, a certain sixteen-year-old princess awaits her true love's kiss...

A badass Snow White in armour sets off on a quest to awaken Aurora/Sleeping Beauty.

But she may get into more predicaments and discover darker secrets than she had expected...

Again, these two fairytale heroines have got much in common: both are poisoned into a coma by

villainesses before their coming of age, then awakened by a kiss of true love.

Making them lesbian lovers was a great idea, and even more if the illustrator portraying this great premise is someone like Chris Riddell, whose Dickens characters, Gulliver, Alice, Ada Goth, Ottoline, pirates... fascinate me.

I won't spoil the ending, but just saying that Snow White is here a badass warrior like in Snow White and the Huntsman, and that she is the one who awakens Aurora, and that Chris Riddell illustrates the story, is enough to hook you.

Recommended if you like: Maleficent (the 2014 film), Snow White and the Huntsman, Monstrous Regiment, Brienne of Tarth, Christina of Sweden, Lady Oscar de Jarjayes, and other badass action heroines, as well as Sailors Uranus and Neptune, Utena and Anthy, and other lesbian action heroines.