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2.63 AVERAGE
2.63 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book starts with what the traditional Sleeping Beauty left off. It focuses on the time between pricking her finger on the spindle and when she wakes up. Bitsy finds herself in a foreign land, a land where you must be beautiful to hold power. If you are not beautiful, you are doomed to become a worker in the most dire of working conditions. Bitsy meets up with a con artist and she has a multitude of troubles in trying to return home. Meanwhile, her parents are trying everything to bring her back.
Opinion
I never thought to wonder what Sleeping Beauty was doing while in her slumber. This fantastical tale lead me down a twisted path that circles on itself. It wasn't until the end that I saw how everything connected together.
At times in the book, I found myself lost. I think though, that the book was so well thought out, with clues carefully given, that if I were to go back and reread, I would be surprised by how much of the book makes sense the second time around.
Overall, even with my confusion, I found this a wonderful take on an old fairy tale.
Many thanks to Net Galley and to Harper Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book.
Opinion
I never thought to wonder what Sleeping Beauty was doing while in her slumber. This fantastical tale lead me down a twisted path that circles on itself. It wasn't until the end that I saw how everything connected together.
At times in the book, I found myself lost. I think though, that the book was so well thought out, with clues carefully given, that if I were to go back and reread, I would be surprised by how much of the book makes sense the second time around.
Overall, even with my confusion, I found this a wonderful take on an old fairy tale.
Many thanks to Net Galley and to Harper Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Overall Creeping Beauty was interesting and had good character development. This took me a long time to get into. I think a part of that was that it was very long (3 parts maybe could have been split?) I also couldn't really figure out what the goal of the main character was for a while.
The journal entries from the king were very helpful and made it pretty interesting, that the whole thing was happening in her head. I would have liked to have known if the prince was Perrigrine or not. There was a lot going on and I felt that it sort of jumped around a bit. I really enjoyed how the princess learned to fend for herself and became stronger in many ways. I felt like it was trying to recap sleeping beauty in a lot of ways but also some others as well and it wasn't entirely clear.
It would have been more highly rated for me if there was more of a focus on one thing rather than the multiple things that that were going on. I also felt the ending was very abrupt and didn't really wrap things up for me.
The journal entries from the king were very helpful and made it pretty interesting, that the whole thing was happening in her head. I would have liked to have known if the prince was Perrigrine or not. There was a lot going on and I felt that it sort of jumped around a bit. I really enjoyed how the princess learned to fend for herself and became stronger in many ways. I felt like it was trying to recap sleeping beauty in a lot of ways but also some others as well and it wasn't entirely clear.
It would have been more highly rated for me if there was more of a focus on one thing rather than the multiple things that that were going on. I also felt the ending was very abrupt and didn't really wrap things up for me.
