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A review by atrailofpages
Creeping Beauty by Andrea Portes
4.0
I have to say, after seeing some reviews I started reading this book with a VERY OPEN mind. And I was very tickled by this book.
Bitsy touches a spindle and is sent falling down to a land that she does not recognize. Bitsy wants to go home, but no one knows her land and cannot help her. She runs into a man who then takes her to his kingdom Alabastrine where they imbibe in a drink called Sapphire that makes everyone beautiful, and if you’re not beautiful or rich, you are sent to the Sapphire Mines to mine the Sapphire. Bitsy wants to help the people in this world and also to escape and go home and it seems the only way to do either is to defeat The Veist.
So Bitsy may have pricked her finger on a spindle and is asleep, but this sounds more like Alice in Wonderland with the witty repartee, odd places and odd and eccentric people and word choices and phrasing. I really thought I would maybe dislike this book, but I think I needed a book filled with ridiculousness like this one because my mood said yes to this book! I truly enjoyed the hilariousness and quirkiness of this book. I swear I never knew what I was going to get. The world is so jumbled and random and the people so different. It’s interesting too because it’s funny satire and then towards the end, it became rather dark.
This book touched on some subjects and ideas that I think many need to think about today, it gets dark on some of those ideals, such as beauty, specifically on the outside. They took this substance called Sapphire that makes everyone stunningly and unnervingly beautiful. And if you’re not beautiful or rich an could not afford Sapphire, you’re kicked out and sent to the mines to mine for this stuff. It was horrible and yet, many today I think focus too much on the outside and superficiality that I could totally see people today wanting this Sapphire. There were other subjects, but I really went into this book for the story, so I went go into more detail.
Bitsy I was unsure of until the book progressed and she grew as a person from this princess who just nodded and smiled and said yes to whatever her parents said to basically a warrior and focused more on natural beauty and helping those in need, not worrying about that she’s a princess and deserves everything. She after all was considered plain in her world and here she was viewed as beautiful, but she didn’t allow that to deter her desire to be a better person and help others and not focus on just herself.
We meet Count Peregrine, and the moment he came on the scene I loved him. He reminded me of Loki, charming, vain, handsome, a ball of sunshine, with some cunning ruthlessness thrown in there, thinking about himself, and yet there seems to be some insecurities there that make him the way he is. He is very endearing and relatable to a point. He was an absolute delight! An anti-hero if you will that was very happy, and yet cunning and looked out for himself, even with Bitsy and yet you could see how that ate at him. He surprised me, and I was rooting for him through the entire book, I was really hoping him and Bitsy would be endgame with their adorable banter, and his clear and obvious attraction and love for her.
Now, the reason this is 3.5 ⭐️, leaning more towards 3 ⭐️…two things….first, the romance. What on earth! There was a very good romance going on there and I just have no words for how that never really happened or ended, it just fizzled out and left me disappointed, severely disappointed. But the ending…the ending is an open ending, and I do enjoy open endings, but the implication of this ending makes no sense! Bitsy goes from listening to her parents all the time, to being her own person, to allowing another person to influence her and to do what!? I won’t say what it is, but it makes no sense! This was seriously going to be a solid 4 ⭐️ until that ending and how the romance just never played out. I cannot express my disappointment in both of these situations, and I have great ideas as to how that could have turned out differently!
Ah well, this was such an odd book and hilarious. If you need a good laugh and are in the mood for a fantasy that’s a bit odd, quirky, funny with a bit of darkness sprinkled in there, then read it, it won’t hurt you. I’m sure it’s supposed to be all over the place, I mean Alice in Wonderland was!
I received a free digital copy to read. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Bitsy touches a spindle and is sent falling down to a land that she does not recognize. Bitsy wants to go home, but no one knows her land and cannot help her. She runs into a man who then takes her to his kingdom Alabastrine where they imbibe in a drink called Sapphire that makes everyone beautiful, and if you’re not beautiful or rich, you are sent to the Sapphire Mines to mine the Sapphire. Bitsy wants to help the people in this world and also to escape and go home and it seems the only way to do either is to defeat The Veist.
So Bitsy may have pricked her finger on a spindle and is asleep, but this sounds more like Alice in Wonderland with the witty repartee, odd places and odd and eccentric people and word choices and phrasing. I really thought I would maybe dislike this book, but I think I needed a book filled with ridiculousness like this one because my mood said yes to this book! I truly enjoyed the hilariousness and quirkiness of this book. I swear I never knew what I was going to get. The world is so jumbled and random and the people so different. It’s interesting too because it’s funny satire and then towards the end, it became rather dark.
This book touched on some subjects and ideas that I think many need to think about today, it gets dark on some of those ideals, such as beauty, specifically on the outside. They took this substance called Sapphire that makes everyone stunningly and unnervingly beautiful. And if you’re not beautiful or rich an could not afford Sapphire, you’re kicked out and sent to the mines to mine for this stuff. It was horrible and yet, many today I think focus too much on the outside and superficiality that I could totally see people today wanting this Sapphire. There were other subjects, but I really went into this book for the story, so I went go into more detail.
Bitsy I was unsure of until the book progressed and she grew as a person from this princess who just nodded and smiled and said yes to whatever her parents said to basically a warrior and focused more on natural beauty and helping those in need, not worrying about that she’s a princess and deserves everything. She after all was considered plain in her world and here she was viewed as beautiful, but she didn’t allow that to deter her desire to be a better person and help others and not focus on just herself.
We meet Count Peregrine, and the moment he came on the scene I loved him. He reminded me of Loki, charming, vain, handsome, a ball of sunshine, with some cunning ruthlessness thrown in there, thinking about himself, and yet there seems to be some insecurities there that make him the way he is. He is very endearing and relatable to a point. He was an absolute delight! An anti-hero if you will that was very happy, and yet cunning and looked out for himself, even with Bitsy and yet you could see how that ate at him. He surprised me, and I was rooting for him through the entire book, I was really hoping him and Bitsy would be endgame with their adorable banter, and his clear and obvious attraction and love for her.
Now, the reason this is 3.5 ⭐️, leaning more towards 3 ⭐️…two things….first, the romance. What on earth! There was a very good romance going on there and I just have no words for how that never really happened or ended, it just fizzled out and left me disappointed, severely disappointed. But the ending…the ending is an open ending, and I do enjoy open endings, but the implication of this ending makes no sense! Bitsy goes from listening to her parents all the time, to being her own person, to allowing another person to influence her and to do what!? I won’t say what it is, but it makes no sense! This was seriously going to be a solid 4 ⭐️ until that ending and how the romance just never played out. I cannot express my disappointment in both of these situations, and I have great ideas as to how that could have turned out differently!
Ah well, this was such an odd book and hilarious. If you need a good laugh and are in the mood for a fantasy that’s a bit odd, quirky, funny with a bit of darkness sprinkled in there, then read it, it won’t hurt you. I’m sure it’s supposed to be all over the place, I mean Alice in Wonderland was!
I received a free digital copy to read. All thoughts and opinions are my own.