I got this ARC at ALA Annual in NOLA a few years ago. I even got the author to autograph it. But sadly, at that time I wasn’t being as good as I have started being with scheduling ARCs. So I added it to my list of books to try to get through off my Backlist challenge this year. It took me a bit to get into it. However as the story went on, I really did want to see where the author would take this very interesting take on Sleeping Beauty. It is YA, but has a touch of mature themes in it, but that is the point the author was trying to make, and she does it very well. Towards the end all I could think was how Ama couldn’t do anything without getting in trouble. There was nothing she could do for her own enjoyment that didn’t soon get taken away. But wow, the twist at the end, that was one I didn’t see coming, and made up for the slowness of the beginning.

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.