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Thorn anna burke
Thorn anna burke












thorn anna burke

The narrative takes the fairy tale moral a step further than usual, and actually hangs a hat on the most obvious lessons: The sisters are predictably divided, the fiancé channels only the best in Disney Gaston comedic evil. The cursing fairy is delightfully vindictive and morally grey. Rowan is driven, idealistic, strong, and heartbreakingly naive. Burke, known best for her lesfic debut COMPASS ROSE, writes a beautiful, breathtaking version of Beauty and the Beast. It carries all the best fairy tale tropes, sometimes borrowing from old iterations, relying heavily on the Disney version, but giving us a ‘beast’ Ice Queen whom we cannot help but love. THORN is so much more than I hoped for in a short novella fairy tale retelling. She decides to stay and make the best of things (maybe even make out, since those hot springs are the perfect place to catch someone bathing…), even as the situation complicates itself with magical roses, evil fairies, and an ex-fianćes out for blood vengeance. The Huntress has a fabulous temper but really, Rowan has nothing worth going home to. Rowan, having now lost her entire family, must find the will to live and perhaps even thrive in her new home. As punishment for the father’s transgressions, the Huntress also takes Rowan back with her, to live an isolated life in a perpetual winter castle. She takes back her rose, but not before it pricks Rowan, leaving an icy magic deep within her. Enraged by the death of her beloved wolves and seeking her rose, the Huntress leaves her winter castle and chases Rowan’s father. The rose is not the only thing he brings back, however. Of his hunting party, it is only Rowan’s father who returns alive. He does so only by stealing it from a snow-covered castle the party finds while hunting giant wolves. Rowan, recently betrothed to a bland guy she doesn’t really care for, asks her father for a single rose upon his return. Trying to make ends meet and get enough, well, meat, for his family, Rowan’s father joins a hunting party heading far into the snowy woods. Her mother had died (fairy tale trope! Take a drink!), her father’s merchant ships have sunk to the bottom of the ocean, and now she and her sisters have been stripped of their affluent city life and are being forced to make do in a remote countryside filled with bears, wolves, and a crap ton of snow. Rowan, eldest of three daughters to a widower father, has not had a good few years.














Thorn anna burke