From USA Today bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is an original, subversive fairytale about a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.
There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?
If only.
Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…
My Review:
This was such a fantastic read! It very much was a fairytale, but like the synopsis says, it's subversive, and I loved this story! That Toadling was the rightful daughter of the king and queen, but was stolen and replaced by faeries, and then had to give a blessing on the one that replaced her? Yeah, it was really fantastic to read!
The fact that the blessing didn't go as intended, and she had to watch her replacement live the life that she was supposed to? When all Toadling really wanted to was to go back to the fae that became her family. Yeah. That was rough.
We knew that something went wrong, that Toadling is watching over this tower, which gave it a Sleeping Beauty feel to it. But to find out what happened and why, well, that was such a great story to watch unfold!
And oh, that ending? With how it was resolved, yeah, that fit with everything that happened before it. But what she decides for her future, what choices she was given, yeah, I'm so glad, she deserves it after all that she went though!
I loved reading this book, and I can't wait to read more by T. Kingfisher!
Author: T. Kingfisher
Read: August 2nd, 2023
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2023 Book!
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Expected Publication: August 15th 2023
Author: T. Kingfisher
Read: August 2nd, 2023
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2023 Book!
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Expected Publication: August 15th 2023
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