A Kiss In Time
By Alex Flinn Book Review by Miranda Fraser ISBN: 978-0-06-087421-6 If you have never read anything from Alex Flinn you are DEFINITELY missing out. Beastly is my absolute favorite novel by her! Seriously, read it before you see the terrible movie. Naturally, when I saw another fairy tale retold by her I knew it would be amazing. Just give me a few days to read it between work and finals and here I am with a, hopefully, compelling book review. A Kiss In Time is a modern day retelling of Sleeping Beauty. To begin with, if you know the story of Sleeping Beauty you know that the last fairy was given a chance to save the Princess from dying, and in place of death her and her whole kingdom would sleep till true love’s first kiss. In Flinn’s brilliant retelling this is still true, but instead of the prince being nearby, and valiantly riding in to save the day, within hours of the curse occurring, our princess sleeps for 300 years. That’s 300 years that an entire kingdom has been sleeping! Princess Talia’s story being in the 17th century, so when they are woken it is modern day, the world knows nothing about their existence, her prince is not a prince at all, and they must all learn how to live with inventions they know nothing about. Talk about a long nap! Since everything has changed in 300 years, so have the ideals of family, marriage, life expectancy, morals, and so on. Needless to say this makes for an interesting and hilarious story line. What if you had never seen a car or didn’t know what an airplane was? That’s a prefect version of what Princess Tali encounters. Secondly, every book must have a good plot and some twists and turns. So what if the princess’s “prince” does not wish to marry her? In Talia’s world, of course, if it’s true loves kiss, he will marry her and the curse has been fulfilled. But in modern times people are getting married older and older or not at all. Talia must make her “prince”fall in love with her so that surely he will marry her and they will live happily ever after. Oh, if only that was Talia’s only concern, for you, see the evil witch is not satisfied that her curse has been fulfilled. Now Talia must battle modern day issues she does not understand, an angry kingdom and parents, an evil witch who does not believe Talia should be allowed to live, and finally a man who should love her who does not. That’s a lot for any sixteen year old to handle, much less a sixteen year old who woke up from a 300 year nap. Finally, while I could go on and on about this story I simply want to wrap up this briefing on A Kiss In Time by reminding the potential readers that just as with Beastly the use of modern day technology comes into play. Let’s just say, in Beastly the “beast” had modern day chat rooms at his hands, and in A Kiss In Time this particular witch uses modern day quizzes and “dragons”to battle the princess’s true love. As usual, the link to the Author's Page is below.
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