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vicky715 's review for:
A Long, Long Sleep
by Anna Sheehan
I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this book, which I bought on a whim from an Audible "surprise" sale. What I got was an interesting blend of fairy-tale retelling (Sleeping Beauty) and science fiction futuristic dystopia. Rosalinda Fitzroy is found in a stasis tube in a storage room, where she's been for the past 62 years. Her parents are dead, and she had few friends since she was frequently taken in and out of stasis. She has a lot to adapt to, including high school (where they're conveniently studying the time just after she was put into stasis, known as "the dark times" due to the plagues that devastated the world). There were twists that I didn't see coming (and a few that I did), but all were done well. I wasn't expecting a lot, but was impressed and engrossed enough that I wound up with a late night because I just couldn't go to bed without getting the rest of the story.
Separate note - I listened to the audiobook for this one, and the narrator did a great job. Even when Rose was acting like a whiney teenager, she didn't sound so much like a whiney teenager, which would have gotten annoying.
Separate note - I listened to the audiobook for this one, and the narrator did a great job. Even when Rose was acting like a whiney teenager, she didn't sound so much like a whiney teenager, which would have gotten annoying.