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Curse Of The Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale Of Sleeping Beauty (2012)

by Jane Yolen(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0399256644 (ISBN13: 9780399256646)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Philomel

review 1: I picked this and one other book by Jane Yolen up at the library to see if they would be good reads for my daughter. I read Briar Rose last year (I think) and liked it, so I was interested to see what her books for younger readers might be like. This is billed as "the real story of Sleeping Beauty". As you know, I like a well written fairy tale re-write. This was dark and sometimes just plain confusing. Sleeping Beauty hardly comes into it at all, and when she does it is as a spoiled infant with awful and demanding parents who force the fey to do their bidding. If I was reading it for myself and not previewing for my tween daughter, if it wasn't quite so dark and if nobody had said anything about Sleeping Beauty, I might have liked it better.
review 2: Picked t... morehis one up because I have enjoyed several other books by Jane Yolen and I needed a quick, fun read. I love fairy tales and fairy tale retellings so I figured this would fit the bill. I finished it, but kind of skimmed some parts. I just didn't "get" it. It was just kind of a muddled mess of a story about some fey and rescuing some cursed fey prince all while trying to fit in to some kind of sleeping beauty something or other. I didn't think it worked at all. less

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