Top 3 Books by Alix E. Harrow

The fantasy breaks towards new possibilities under the protection of Alix E. Harrow's imaginary. It is no longer about epic approaches in parallel becomings of the world. Approaches where exuberant landscapes of impossible orography and exotic characters bear fruit. The question in Alix is ​​to enjoy that same sophistication that invites us to inhabit new worlds but offering that trail that also leads to our world. Thus finding juicy metaphorical reflections as well as a sensation of greater proximity to the fantastic.

From Michael Ende Few authors had dared a combination between here and there, between our site and fourth dimensions or parallel spaces. Only with the more feminist derivative of Alix's fantasies, the thing would end up getting closer to Margaret Atwood in a somewhat more naive version.

The point is that Alix remembers that Ende that makes us leave for unsuspected voyages from the books. Only that in it any excuse is good to undertake trips to that other side. From doors to spells and all sorts of accidents that end up being Alice's rabbit hole or Dorothy's cyclone. Similar boarding points from where to depart to the other side.

And already put, an acute critical intention shines in his books. Because, as he said, in the allegorical, in the metaphorical, the sharpest comparisons can be drawn. Nothing is free in Alix's novels. And so we can always enjoy a double reading straddling the adventure and the moral.

Top 3 best novels by Alix E. Harrow

The witches of yesterday and tomorrow

The novel closest to our world. The plot with the most moralizing component around that feminism that claims against a more than tangible evil. Spells to reconvert the world...

In 1893 there are no longer any witches. In the past there were, in that dark and inhospitable time before the bonfires began to light. Now witchcraft is little more than housewife spells and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants some power, the ballot box is the only place she can get it.

But James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth and Beatrice Belladonna, the Eastwood sisters, join the suffragettes of New Salem and begin to search for the forgotten words and components capable of turning the women's revolution into the witches' revolution. The sisters will find themselves stalked by shadows and all manner of evil, hunted by forces that have no intention of allowing witches to vote, or even live, and they will have to delve into ancient magic, forge new alliances and solve problems between them if they want to survive.

The witches of yesterday and tomorrow

The ten thousand doors of January

Every good fantasy story is born from a book. Must be like this. There is no more powerful force, capable of creating new worlds, than a mind faced with the magic of words. Even more so when that imagination belongs to a girl. In times where we give up and surrender our ability to imagine (and therefore feel and even empathize) to hobbies in a display version, nothing better than recovering that drive that only a mind gives by inventing what the letters tell it.

Enero Demico is a curious young woman who lives in a sprawling mansion full of unusual objects and treasures. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels a little different from everything around her. Among all the artifacts that inhabit the house, January will discover a wonderful book: a book that will take her to other worlds and that tells a story full of secret doors, love, adventure and danger. Each time she turns one of her pages, impossible truths will be revealed to her until she discovers that the story she reads is increasingly intertwined with her own.

Lush and richly imaginative, Alix E. Harrow's riveting debut features a tale of impossible journeys, unforgettable love affairs and the eternal power of words.

The ten thousand doors of January

The cracked spinning wheel

There is something insolent about revisiting a classic to adjust it to a new, more up-to-date creativity. But daring is always suggestive. If things end up being interesting. And Alix manages to give that transcendent point to the proposal. From the apparent innocence of a story like Sleeping Beauty, Alix brings new edges. Interestingly a reference that he also took Stephen King for his "Sleeping Beauties." Only in King's case it was a more tangential reference.

It is Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, a very special day because it will be the last birthday she will ever celebrate. When she was young, an industrial accident gave her a strange illness. Not much is known about her about her, but it is known that he will not allow her to reach her twenty-two.

Her best friend Charm is determined to make Zinnia's last birthday a full-on Sleeping Beauty experience, complete with tower, spinning wheel and all. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, causing her to fall between worlds and find another sleeping beauty who is just as desperate as she is to escape her fate.

The cracked spinning wheel

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