jennybeastie 's review for:

While Beauty Slept by Elizabeth Blackwell

3.0

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On the whole, this was a great book. I almost stopped reading it halfway through, though, because I got really tired of all the foreshadowing! and regrets! and drama! from the narrator. "If only I had known.... Would I have still made the same choice?" -- it was fine, up to a point, but then relentlessly repeated, and so frequently applied to things beyond her control that I found it pretty dang annoying. Too bad, because, like I said, it was a great book -- fairy tale retelling with some life in the characters.