#toadling

[nincoverband]

Finished Thornhedge (waaay too fast) and loved it. I *neeeeeed* the story about what comes next.

Idk the word count but it feels like a hearty drabble. Light novella.

Side note: if anyone knows if Libby can show you word count please tell me.

[daily-rayless]

Toadling, the misfit protagonist of Thornhedge by T Kingfisher. It's an unusual retelling of Sleeping Beauty, and Toadling is a big part of why it's so good.

[carmillapixel]

Little sketchy painting of Toadling from Thornhedge by @tkingfisher . I sketched her originally as soon as I finished the book when it first came out, but I redid it digitally with some colour recently after spotting it in my sketchbook. I really love her, she’s so sweet.

I can’t recall if she has clothes in the book, but in my head she didn’t when she was watching over the castle in the thorns, as she was mostly in toad mode, and you don’t need clothes when you’re a toad. I couldn’t easily picture what clothes she would even want to wear. I have another (the original) version without the tasteful lily pads, which I prefer, but I guess this one is less risky to post!

[moonlitglen]

cursed by fortune. cursed by circumstance. cursed to be whatever i am... ❦

– thornhedge by @tkingfisher

[corporalkiheart]

I read Thornhedge by T Kingfisher and it really sang to my inherent desire to be a toad. Like it’s so tragic and beautiful but I was perpetually distracted by my overwhelming envy of Toadling’s ability to Toad.

[averymanlyishmuppet]

art based on T. Kingfisher’s Thornhedge.

[a-ramblinrose]

“She was neither beautiful nor made of malice, as many of the Fair Folk are said to be. Mostly she was fretful and often tired.”

― T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Review: Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher.

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right? If only. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…

I honestly read this ARC more than once, because I loved it so much - I am coming fast to the conclusion that T. Kingfisher could never make a bad book, and this is another good example of that.

I can't explain how much I love Toadling. When all the pages were done, all the filled up 89 pages of this book of my copy, I was not ready to leave her. I need more of Toadling, she's such a wonderful character who really delivers on every page. I want a play of this book, it would be so good (in fact a play of this book with the Horrible Histories cast, don't at me).

The plot moves well and leaves you wanting more. I loved every page as this story develops and it takes its twists and turns. What I really love about it is how Halim's and Toadling's characters develop and how their relationship blooms throughout this story. I wanna talk about this book to so many people. I wanna force it in people's hands.

I loved this book, I will read T. Kingfisher's work as soon as they appear.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC!