Reviewed by Ashley on
This was my favourite retelling in a long time. It felt very true to the Sleeping Beauty story I knew, but the author breathed some fresh life into it. She really made me FEEL for the main character. I felt so bad for her situation!
My one disappointment was the ending. Not the ending ending—that part was epic. I just mean where the story left off. Looking back over the whole book, I felt like not much was actually accomplished. At the end, what did Aurora achieve, really? Not much. I wasn't bored or anything while reading, this was just something I thought in hindsight. It sounds like A Wicked Thing will be a series and that there's more to come, but I wish more could have been achieved in this book than just the wedding part. Like, I wanted more insight into the rebellion. I felt like one of the characters just dropped out of sight and was left behind in the story.
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