ReviewWhile Beauty Slept is a great retelling. I haven't read many alternate stories of Sleeping Beauty, so this one piqued my interest.Elise is a character that takes loyalty very seriously. She even pushes away her own desires in order to serve the queen and princess. She doesn't have many frie...
I quite enjoyed the book, even if I didn't see elements of Sleeping Beauty within the book (after reading some reviews of the book through Goodreads, I do realize that I did miss them, even though some of them were quite clear as day and it probably doesn't help that I am not as familiar with the st...
Ahhhh, fairy tale twists. I’m an admitted fan. Why do we love these re-imaginings of standard childhood literary fare so much? Is it because it gives us permission to return to the comfort of the nursery while still maintaining the illusion of reading an “adult” book? Perhaps. But I prefer a simpler...
This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty (the Disney version). However, this is a bit different than the retellings we are used to getting. Usually there is a mix of what kind of magic or in a different magical place, however, this retelling is a "what if" kind. What if there was a real historical sto...
WOW! Let me tell you. Not at all what I had expected. When I read the summary of this book on Penguin's website, I loved the fact that the book was written through the lens of historical fiction and retelling it as if it could have really happened. Gone are the fairies, the dragon and evil magic a...
We all know the fairy tale story of sleeping beauty, but have you have ever wondered what that story would have looked like in real life? What would cause the king and queen to avoid inviting a powerful woman to their daughter’s baptism? Was the woman who cursed the princess really a fairy, a witch,...
Full review here. I read this in December and liked it enough, but found the heroine occasionally maddening. (Mostly because she wouldn't just marry the guy I wanted her to.) But with some distance, the remaining feel of the novel isn't our heroine's romantic misadventures (which isn't the point...
I was given an Uncorrected Proof by the publisher Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam. This is a book that pulled me in immediately. The characters and locations are written so that I enthralled. I didn't want to put the book down and I certainly didn't want it to end.
A retelling of Sleeping Beauty, although not at all as a fairy tale. As a humble farmer's daughter, Elise awakes one morning after surviving a bout of the pox to find most of her family dead, or nearly so. Attempting to fulfill her dreams and her mother's dying wish, Elise makes her way from the c...
Centered around a handmaiden to a royal family in a quasi medieval world the tale re-examines the Sleeping Beauty myth in a new and fresh way. There are no epic battles with fierce dragons (although the character of Millicent was fairly creepifying) or magic fairies instead the author focuses on th...
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