Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books
Year: 2013
Genre: Graphic Novel/ Fairytale Retelling
Age: YA 16+
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This is not the classic fairytale that you know...
Our story begins with three dwarfs. They are traveling below the mountain to Dorimar to trade a beautiful ruby for the finest silk they can buy. When they get to the village of Giff they are told they can't complete their journey because a plague has fallen over the capital. A wicked enchantress has cursed the princess to prick her finger & die. But a good fairy made it so she would fall into a magical sleep instead. All those in the castle will sleep as well, not changing or aging until the princess awakens. Over time a great wall of roses grows around the castle. Many brave knights have traveled from far off lands to try & get through the wall to break the spell on the princess.
Now the magical sleep has traveled & people beyond the castle in the village are falling asleep as well. The dwarfs do not fall asleep because they are magical beings. When they arrive home they enlist the help of their queen to go with them & save the princess, the castle, & the villages beyond before it's too late.
They travel through the Forest of Acaire, before they reach the castle protected by thick brambles they go through a town full of sleeping people. The only things that do not sleep during this plague are spiders. The spiders have covered everything & everyone in thick sticky webs. The people in the town surprisingly start sleepwalking, trying to halt the queen & dwarfs from completing their journey. This means they must hurry.
They make it through the brambles by way of fire & blade. Racing up the tower they find the sleeping princess & a frail old woman. The queen knows what she has to do to break the curse as she presses her lips to the princess's own. The princess wakes up but the sleepwalkers do not halt. The queen knows that something must be wrong.
The sleeping young woman is actually the evil enchantress & she can control the sleepwalkers. The old woman was once a beautiful princess who had her life taken from her. In order to wake the sleeping people they both must give their lives to the spindle.
Once the deed is done the queen & the dwarfs head west into the night & their next adventure in this new land...
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Likes: I knew this story was going to have Snow White & Sleeping Beauty kissing each other but I didn't think there would be that twist at the end with the princess & the enchantress.
In true Neil Gaiman style this story was a little inappropriate in places, kinda dark, & had a twist.
The pictures are BEAUTIFUL in this story!
This book is really short, less than 100 pages. I was about to read it in about 30 minutes.
This book also counts towards my challenge for a book with a white cover.
Dislikes: -
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