A sleeping curse, a spinning wheel, a lonely princess – as a big fairy tale fantasy fan I had to grab “A Wicked Thing“, the debut novel from British Author Rhiannon Thomas.
Not only draws the fantasy novel heavily on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, it also takes it a few steps further, beginning at a point where most adaptions end: Beauty awakes. But the world she used to know is no longer. In “A Wicked Thing” Rhiannon Thomas explores what happens after “happily ever after”. In the following interview the author discusses fairy tales, feminist fiction, romance in YA novels and many other things. (more…)