The style and word choices were fitting for the setting for the story.
However, it feels like most of it (excluding 20 pages) was the back story. When I first picked it up, I expected something more magical and gripping. It started off like that but it ended up being a disappointment.
The first part was basically Gorse's narrative of her life up to then; tales told to her, her secrets, gifts as a fairy. Things like that. Individually, these stories are interesting and well-down. As a whole, they seem to be organized as though a monkey was the one over the author's shoulders. (No offense.)
I understand that we needed to know what lead up to Sleeping Beauty's curse but it was too much. If it was going to be the back story plus only a handful of the actual tale, it would have been better as an e-book.
I won't say that this book didn't have a lot going for it- it did. However, it didn't deliver on its promise. I expected to read about her curse, not about how a fairy caused the conflict.
If it had been the first part of the story only, I wouldn't have minded. It was well constructed enough to ignore that it wasn't what we expected to read. The second part lagged too much, though. The conflict with the prince and all of that stalled. Anything that Gorse experienced down there wasn't of much use.
The only reason I lasted as long as I did was because of the characters. They were intriguing and real. They would've been better off in an original fairy tale though.
Would I reread this? Only to analyze the language and imagery.
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