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| Original Title: | The Sleeping Beauty |
| ISBN: | 037380315X (ISBN13: 9780373803156) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Five Hundred Kingdoms #5 |
Mercedes Lackey
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.97 | 7005 Users | 416 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Sleeping Beauty (Five Hundred Kingdoms #5) |
| Author | : | Mercedes Lackey |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2010 by Luna Books (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Romance. Fairy Tales. Fiction |
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Heavy is the head--and the eyelids--of the princess who wears the crown...In Rosamund's realm, happiness hinges on a few simple beliefs:
For every princess there's a prince.
The king has ultimate power.
Stepmothers should never be trusted.
And bad things come to those who break with Tradition....
But when Rosa is pursued by a murderous huntsman and then captured by dwarves, her beliefs go up in smoke. Determined to escape and save her kingdom from imminent invasion, she agrees to become the guinea pig in one of her stepmother's risky incantations--thus falling into a deep, deep sleep.
When awakened by a touchy-feely stranger, Rosa must choose between Tradition and her future...between a host of eligible princes and a handsome, fair-haired outsider. And learn the difference between being a princess and ruling as a queen.
The moral of the story? Sometimes a princess has to create her own happy endings....
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Also posted on my blog Got My Book. This Adult Fantasy, which mixes various fairytales with "The Ring Cycle," is one of Lackey's better 500 Kingdoms novels.BOOK DETAILS:The Sleeping Beauty by Mercedes Lackey, read by Gabra Zackman, published by Audible Studios (2013) / Length: 11 hrs 5 minSERIES INFO:This is Book #5 of 6 in the "Five Hundred Kingdoms" series. These books can easily be read as standalones.SUMMARY:Although I feel that Ms Lackey's newer books lack the narrative tightness &
Better than what I was expecting. Decent tale. =)
This was a wonderful romp! Fantastic characters, women who have guts, men who love women with guts, gleeful melange of folk tales: don't be deceived by the title of the book: everything from Nordic mythology to Hansel and Gretel and quite a few in between are mixed into this story! Of course there are the bad guys. And they are a surprise and very very bad. Which includes one father that appears out of nowhere in the last few pages! Do read this!
Lackey's been getting a lot of mileage out of fairy tales of late. Actually, she's been getting a lot of mileage, period--her publication schedule is pretty dense, and this one shares the minor continuity errors of several of her more recent books. It's not bad enough to be really annoying, but the books clearly have been written in some haste. This is a very enjoyable featherweight tale with likeable, entertainingly pragmatic characters. In this series, fate in the form of The Tradition pushes
Either the best or close of these, this sort of fairy tale mixing finally fulfilled the promise I'd been given in the first book. However, the story felt a little disjointed as a result (important threads early on are totally abandoned, new characters are introduced literally in the last three pages, etc), the middle dragged a little with no indication of any sort of villainy for far too long, and the writing wasn't too remarkable. Mercedes Lackey continues to not know how to have a non-blonde
In The Sleeping Beauty , as with the other Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, there is a force of magic called The Tradition. In other words, the tradition of how fairy tales "should work" tries to make everyday life fit the bill, no matter how unpleasant it may be for those persons involved. Princess Rosamund, whose kingdom is in danger of being invaded, is chased deep into the woods and becomes prisoner of seven dwarves. After being rescued, however, she and Lily (the Fairy Godmother of this
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