Waking Beauty edition by Sarah E Morin Religion Spirituality eBooks
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What if the sleeping beauty refused to wake up?
The rescue wasn't going at all how he planned. Prince Arpien intends to gain a throne and the sleeping beauty's heart with a single kiss that wakes her from the evil fairy's curse. But kissing the princess is only the beginning of a series of unforeseen obstacles man-eating bugs, deadly spindles, talking lapdogs, and fiery pickles. The sleeping beauty is the biggest complication of all.
Princess Brierly is beautiful and Fairy-Gifted, but also...daft. After one hundred years of sleep imprisonment, Brierly refuses to believe this rescue is anything more than a tantalizing but doomed dream.
Arpien is drawn to the vibrancy beneath Brierly's indifferent exterior. Can they reclaim her kingdom? Do they dare trust in the Prince of the old tales to help them battle the evil fairy who cursed Brierly? What is the price of waking beauty?
Waking Beauty edition by Sarah E Morin Religion Spirituality eBooks
This book was not what I expected. At all. When it arrived, I opened the box to find a tome rather than a slim novel as I'd been expecting (if I'd checked the page count before hand, I would've realized it is 480 pages long).This is an epic, not a quick, easy-read fairy tale.
The beginning was a little slow for me. The writing style reminded me a lot of Lewis Carroll (think Alice in Wonderland or the poem The Jabberwocky). There are a lot of made-up words and things that the reader has to figure out as they go along as well as a number of long strings of titles such as Peerless Prince, etc. It's a style that evokes an older, whimsical style of writing. It is fun writing, but a little difficult to get into until you get used to it.
Besides the writing, the story also unfolded slowly. Each piece of the puzzle was revealed after the characters do a lot of character-stuff and character reflection. Overall, I'd rate this as a very, very character-driven novel rather than plot-driven. As a plot-driven reader, I felt like it could've been trimmed a little bit, especially in the beginning when (to me) it felt like the characters weren't accomplishing anything for several chapters.
But once I reached the end? It was worth it. Totally. Once the action started happening, it drew all the pieces together. The three different POV characters all had their own role to play in the ending, and it had a few twists that I wasn't expected (and a few I was).
While I liked all three characters, Nessa was my favorite. Probably because she is the most straightforward of the three POV characters. While the POV switched between Arpien, Brierly, and Nessa, I was never confused by whose head I was in. They all have very distinct voices.
My favorite part of the book was the theme of dreams vs. reality. While Brierly is the one that refuses to believe she is actually awake and not still stuck in dreams, she isn't the only one who is stuck in delusions. In a way, all the characters have their own delusions, their own Dreams, that they need to wake from in order to find Reality. It made me think about what I might be deceiving myself with and what thorns I might be clinging to because I believe I'm strong enough to handle them on my own.
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Waking Beauty edition by Sarah E Morin Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
How do you talk to someone who refuses to see what is right in front of them? How to you share your most cherished beliefs with people who think they are nothing but fairy tales? How can you learn to trust when every time you've tried you've been deceived? These are the questions faced by the characters of Waking Beauty, a beautiful retelling of Sleeping Beauty, in which the Beauty does not want to be woken up!
There is no way I can do this book justice with a review, but it almost seems ungrateful not to given how much I enjoyed this story. Waking Beauty starts out very light-hearted and whimsical, very similar to Ella Enchanted in the way that it makes fun of the fact that it is a fairy tale retold. But just as soon as you think this is going to be just a fun, light read, you find yourself sucked into an epic fantasy with so many twists and tangles you have no idea how it will sort itself out! Brierly has been sleeping, and dreaming of rescue, for a hundred years. Every time she thought the spell was broken, every time she would care for a "dream prince" it would turn out to be a nightmare. Because of this she lives by her own rules because they're the only ones that make sense. Arpien is so set on his own agenda, (marry the princess, set up a kingdom, live happily ever after, etc.) and so distracted trying to figure out his wacky princess, that he can't see his own delusions. It's hilarious to watch them interact with each other. The character development is phenomenal. Just as you think you've figured someone out, Morin uncovers another layer, and another, and another. The writing style is very entertaining and bounces back and forth seamlessly between hilarious and profound. There are not many authors who can pull this off. I loved this book and I highly recommend it. I really hope she writes a follow-up story, it was so hard to leave this one!
This book was not what I expected. At all. When it arrived, I opened the box to find a tome rather than a slim novel as I'd been expecting (if I'd checked the page count before hand, I would've realized it is 480 pages long).
This is an epic, not a quick, easy-read fairy tale.
The beginning was a little slow for me. The writing style reminded me a lot of Lewis Carroll (think Alice in Wonderland or the poem The Jabberwocky). There are a lot of made-up words and things that the reader has to figure out as they go along as well as a number of long strings of titles such as Peerless Prince, etc. It's a style that evokes an older, whimsical style of writing. It is fun writing, but a little difficult to get into until you get used to it.
Besides the writing, the story also unfolded slowly. Each piece of the puzzle was revealed after the characters do a lot of character-stuff and character reflection. Overall, I'd rate this as a very, very character-driven novel rather than plot-driven. As a plot-driven reader, I felt like it could've been trimmed a little bit, especially in the beginning when (to me) it felt like the characters weren't accomplishing anything for several chapters.
But once I reached the end? It was worth it. Totally. Once the action started happening, it drew all the pieces together. The three different POV characters all had their own role to play in the ending, and it had a few twists that I wasn't expected (and a few I was).
While I liked all three characters, Nessa was my favorite. Probably because she is the most straightforward of the three POV characters. While the POV switched between Arpien, Brierly, and Nessa, I was never confused by whose head I was in. They all have very distinct voices.
My favorite part of the book was the theme of dreams vs. reality. While Brierly is the one that refuses to believe she is actually awake and not still stuck in dreams, she isn't the only one who is stuck in delusions. In a way, all the characters have their own delusions, their own Dreams, that they need to wake from in order to find Reality. It made me think about what I might be deceiving myself with and what thorns I might be clinging to because I believe I'm strong enough to handle them on my own.
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