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forestidylls's review
4.0
Still one of my favorite Sleeping Beauty retellings
***
Four and a half stars. This has been the most well written off the series so far and truly the most enjoyable. I just loved this take on Sleeping Beauty and watching her live a double life. Would read again on a heartbeat.
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Four and a half stars. This has been the most well written off the series so far and truly the most enjoyable. I just loved this take on Sleeping Beauty and watching her live a double life. Would read again on a heartbeat.
hebberelle's review against another edition
4.0
Intelligence hidden in plain sight! I love it and I love the fact that she gets to show her true nature by the end.
kebreads's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this story! Celeste is so amazing. This was a great take on the Sleeping beauty story.
content: clean - some mild violence
content: clean - some mild violence
annettebooksofhopeanddreams's review against another edition
5.0
Sleeping Beauty is a tale that has always been close to my heart, but that's been hard to retell. Mostly because no one actually wants a main character asleep during the most important part of the book: the finale. This book, and Melanie Cellier, has found the perfect solution to this problem though and that resulted in a beautiful story about a girl who had to be twice as clever, because the outside world believes she's not clever at all.
In the first book of the series we already met Celeste and discovered that she was beautiful, but without brains. In this book we discover that her lack of intelligence is caused by a curse, a curse that makes it impossible for Celeste to display the true intellect she's has been given by one of the Godmothers at birth. During all those years of being cursed she had however developed a method that makes sure she can influence the world around her, without having to deal with the pain she has to suffer when she attempts to truly speak her mind.
This book was also a very lovely reencounter with Prince William, the crown prince and brother of Marie. William is in every way possible a true prince. He's heroic, strong, charming and always willing to lend a hand to damsels in distress. But he can also see past Celeste's beauty and notices that something weird is going on. It was really nice to get to know him a little better and to see him finally finding his happily ever after, after he had been so close in the last book.
And once again both main characters got the time to establish a friendship before they fell in love, something that never really gets old, even if it means it takes 250 pages before we finally get a kiss.
I have one more book in this series left and then it's time for the spin off! And I'm looking forward to each and every story.
In the first book of the series we already met Celeste and discovered that she was beautiful, but without brains. In this book we discover that her lack of intelligence is caused by a curse, a curse that makes it impossible for Celeste to display the true intellect she's has been given by one of the Godmothers at birth. During all those years of being cursed she had however developed a method that makes sure she can influence the world around her, without having to deal with the pain she has to suffer when she attempts to truly speak her mind.
This book was also a very lovely reencounter with Prince William, the crown prince and brother of Marie. William is in every way possible a true prince. He's heroic, strong, charming and always willing to lend a hand to damsels in distress. But he can also see past Celeste's beauty and notices that something weird is going on. It was really nice to get to know him a little better and to see him finally finding his happily ever after, after he had been so close in the last book.
And once again both main characters got the time to establish a friendship before they fell in love, something that never really gets old, even if it means it takes 250 pages before we finally get a kiss.
I have one more book in this series left and then it's time for the spin off! And I'm looking forward to each and every story.
siriusly_loves_books's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
kduncan's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
This was probably my least favorite of the series. It was just too out there. I know Celeste was gifted great intelligence, but I just didn't buy that she was this amazing spy master. I would have liked it better had the curse somehow kept people she knows from recognizing her as Aurora than them just being incredibly dumb and not recognizing her eyes, especially when she is so amazingly beautiful. Also, how the heck did she eat with that scarf on and not accidentally reveal herself? There was just too much unrealistic air for me to really get into to the story. I did really like the whole storyline about her aunt.
lncolgate's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
angiegeorge_reeds's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Absolutely love this book. The characters, the way they changed the story from the original sleeping beauty. Genius and so much fun!