winter's morning walk content

This was delightfully short and sweet (with a little less emphasis on 'sweet'). Really, this was eerie and cool. I enjoyed listening to the hour-long immersive audiobook that really felt like walking through a dream come to life. From the whole cast of voice actors to varied music and sound effects, listening to this on a cold and windy winter's morning walk around my neighborhood couldn't have been more serendipitously planned or executed. 
To keep this short and sweet (and void of spoilers), I'll say this is accurately marketed as a Sleeping Beauty retelling with elements of another fairy tale sprinkled in at perfect intervals. The series of final events & resolution makes a lot of sense as a result. I really liked the classic fantasy, bardlike writing style (made even more bardlike via audiobook), as well as the nameless main character queen. The pace and subtle ease with which parts of the plot and its connections to what readers think they know about Sleeping Beauty's original tale are revealed are fantastic. I also enjoyed the ambiguity of the ending.



Some of my favorite quotes from The Sleeper and The Spindle:

"'There are choices,' she thought, when she had sat long enough. 'There are always choices.'"

"She wondered how she would feel to be a married woman. It would be the end of her life, she decided, if life was a time of choices."

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