She believed that the world was generally a good place and that her parents had made good decisions to protect her. All of her illusions have been shattered. “I wanted her to be more empowered… She’s not satisfied to just be what she was before. “That’s a big part of her motivations in book two,” says Hillyer of the task ahead of the young queen. This will be especially important as the dream world she was in has started to unravel, causing all the people she’d met and come to love there to be displaced into the real world. Isabelle’s not the only one who’s changed from her journey: Aurora has also come back tougher, having realized that she must take charge of her kingdom. “But then there’s this question of, how are they going to negotiate that?” “Aurora’s awake, Isabelle’s back, and both are ready to rule,” says Hillyer, describing the new status quo.
As a result, both sisters will be going into this book as queens in their own right. Not only did Aurora wake herself up from the dream world at the end of Spindle Fire, but Isabelle found herself in love with the prince who was meant to save her sister. Hillyer is intent on subverting expected fairytale tropes in this second book. “I wanted the slipper to not be about being a perfect fit for a prince, but more like, ‘What does it mean to fit the shoe?’ It’s really a quest for identity.” 2. It’s a clue to her past and unlocking who she is,” says Hillyer. “When Isabelle’s given the slipper in book two, she’s told that it’s the last relic her real mother possessed. Of course, it wouldn’t quite be Cinderella without the iconic glass slipper (which is actually featured on the cover above). The same goes for Belcoeur and Malfleur, the faerie sisters responsible for each of the girls’ conditions.
But now, Aurora and Isabelle have to deal with the consequences of both their actions. The second book in the series- Winter Glass, for which EW has an exclusive look at the cover below-picks up after the first book’s cliffhanger ending left off. (Both girls’ disabilities are caused by the king and queen’s decision to “tithe,” or give, those senses away to faeries when they were children.) It is here in this strange world where she meets a mysterious hunter and finds herself going up against a cruel queen-just like in the romance stories she loves so much.
It’s her blind (and illegitimate) sister, Isabelle.īut while Isabelle ventures off to find a prince to help kiss her sister awake again (Prince Philip, who she would have married, is murdered), Aurora’s pricking of her finger on a spindle lands her in a world where she can feel and speak again. Only the person rushing to her rescue isn’t a prince. That’s one of the main questions Lexa Hillyer’s first book, Spindle Fire, asks as it sees Aurora fall into the fitful slumber she’s known for. What happened to Sleeping Beauty while she was asleep?
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