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Spindle's End
by Robin McKinley
I adore this book. Robin Mckinley's Beauty and the Beast retellings will always be my first loves, but this reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale is right up there with them. It has all the elements you'd expect, knowing the Disney version--evil witch cursing an infant to prick her finger and die before her 21st birthday, a princess being spirited away to be raised in secret, fairies, secret princes, fairy godmothers (and fathers)--but it's all done with a twist so it's also nothing like what Disney raised you on. The magic is more Rose Daughter than Beauty, to compare it with the other fairy tale retellings, but the story takes place in the same world as Deerskin, The Blue Sword, and The Hero and the Crown, just in a neighboring kingdom. You don't have to have read those to read this, but there is a bit of an easter egg you might recognize early on if you are familiar with those stories.