The Bone Spindle – Leslie Vedder

This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the sleeper is a prince in need of rescue, and the rescuer is a noblewoman turned treasure hunter who also happens to be under a curse. She’s fallen in with another princess turned exile (and expert axe welder) who’s totally falling in love with a Red Riding Hood.

This book has some decent world-building, and it’s nice to see the characters fleshed out. It’s also both subverting the damsel in distress theme by making it a prince instead, but he’s definitely got his own part to play in the action. I’m definitely interested to see where this goes next, as they’ve theoretically wrapped up the Sleeping Beauty portion of the story.