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A review by librarymouse
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
adventurous
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
I really loved this retelling of the sleeping beauty story. Toadling is such an interesting character! Braiding Toadling's childhood into the interplay between the changeling and the foundling and her telling both stories to the gentle knight is a very neat way of revealing the story to the reader layer by layer. I love a character with atypical perceptions of what it means to be beautiful, and Toadling's love for the Green Teeth, especially the eldest for her size, glory, and skill, is one of my favorite ways in which a character has equated love with beauty.
Graphic: Blood
Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Child death
Body horror tagged for bodies changing in unhuman ways, though it is a positive