Talia has been cursed by an evil witch that by her sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on a spindle and die. But a fairy changes it to that she will sleep, along with the whole kingdom, until her true love's first kiss. Sounds familiar, right? Jack is on tour in Europe because his parents think it will look great on a college application. Escaping for a day hoping to hit a nude beach, he instead stumbles across what looks like an abandoned village, but it's occupied by sleeping people. In a castle he finds a beautiful girl sleeping, and kisses her. That's just the beginning of the story.
Alex Flinn does some of the best retelling of fairy tales, taking them, and setting them in modern times. So far he's done Beauty and the Beast, The Frog Prince and now Sleeping Beauty. They are fun, well-written, and original teen books that I whole-heartedly recommend.
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