I did like how this padded the two-dimensional Disney characters and how it gave Aurora more awareness, over the course of the novel, and Phillip more flaws. There was just a repetition of already known events and inconsequential filler scenes without which this would have been a brilliant read and only half its current length. I can't point out what prolonged this story, at all. I adore slower-paced reads with slow building, suspense, intense character studies, or evocative depictions of the landscape. The story-line was, in theory, a compelling one but I found the pacing too slow for me to care overly much. Whilst there was nothing inherently wrong with it, it just didn't fill me with any feelings. This had such an intriguing premise and had such potential to be a completely bad-ass book.

I was immediately more invested in this, than the first book, from the very first line of, 'A dragon was dead.' The prologue set the story up nicely but I did not, however, appreciate all of the character traits and found the main character, Aurora, to be a little vapid, shallow, and ungrateful, which had me struggling to empathise with her plight. Or, if she does, it probably won't be true love's kiss to awaken her. Once Upon a Dream is the tale of a Sleeping Beauty who might never wake up. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.This is the second instalment in a series of Disney-inspired retellings by Liz Braswell. The book, Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale ISBN# 9781484707302 in Paperback by Liz Braswell may be ordered in bulk quantities. Will the sleeping beauty be able to wake herself up?įor more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series: But as Maleficent's agents follow her every move, Aurora struggles to discover who her true allies are and, moreover, who she truly is. Aurora isn't alone-a charming prince is eager to join her quest, and old friends offer their help. With a desperate fairy's last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape-created from her very own dreams.

But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over.

It should be simple-a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. The 2nd installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if the sleeping beauty never woke up?

Once upon a dream twisted tale