And on the other side of that bridge, Red (who has the most adorable secret ability) seems to be struggling with confused feelings even more. On top of that, Shane is still trying to grapple with her feelings of love and betrayal where Red is concerned. I won’t spoil the rest of the plot, but most of it surrounds a hidden code Fi and Briar discover that may hold the key to defeating the Spindle Witch. And danger seems to be around every corner with roaming witch hunters and Red, the revealed minion of the Spindle Witch, hot on their heels. Of course, Briar Rose and the Paper Witch are also part of the group now. The Severed Thread picks up right after The Bone Spindle with our main leads, Fi and Shane, exhausted and licking their wounds from a hard fight as they make their way toward a hidden city of witches, perhaps the last one in existence. The characters she’s created are all so fascinating and grounded that I’ll follow them wherever they go. To quote Ron Swanson, “I know what I’m about.”īut I quickly learned there’s so much more to Vedder‘s fantasy series than positive lesbian representation.
I’m not saying sapphic fantasy novels are all I read, but take a look at my Goodreads page, and you’ll see pretty quickly how much of my bookshelf they fill. I stumbled across book #1 in the series, The Bone Spindle, on Goodreads and ordered the damn thing the moment I saw it was a YA fantasy adventure with a WLW co-pilot. And that’s exactly what Leslie Vedder’s The Severed Thread did from cover to cover.
It’s been a little while since a new book appeared in my life and grabbed my heart with a tight fist, refusing to let go.
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