Review of While You're Awake

Title: While you're Awake

Author: Amber Stokes

Genre: fairy tale retold

Rating: 4 stars

     While You're Awake is a sleeping beauty retelling by Amber Stokes. It's a sweet little read that I really enjoyed. It was a twist on the whole Sleeping Beauty story. 

Review of Tear You Apart

Title: Tear You Apart

Author: Sarah Cross

Series: Beau Rivage book 2

 

Chapters: 48

Pages: 370

Genre: teen fairy tales retold

Rating: 4 stars

Tear You Apart is the sequel or companion novel to Kill Me Softy. You can read either book without reading the other. Tear You Apart is a Snow White retelling with a twelve dancing princess twist, and a Rumplestekin twist as well. Viv just happens to be the Snow White character, and her boyfriend is not the prince character instead Henley is the huntsman character.

I know this may sound weird but I found myself actually wanting the “villain” the huntsman to win. Which may sound odd but after reading the book and seeing who the real villains are it will not seem weird. There has only been a few cases where I have be on the side of a villain and most of those have been movies and TV shows, but I think this is only the second time that it’s happened with a book.

I’ve also had a slight Once vibe with this book because the evil queen name just happens to be Regina.

Fans of Once and Fairy tale retellings will enjoy this book.

Review of Kill Me Softly

Title: Kill Me Softly

Author: Sarah Cross

Series: Beau Rivage book 1

 

Chapters: 21

Pages: 331

Genre: Teen fairytale retelling

Rating: 3 stars (mainly due to the use of language)

Kill Me Sofly is a fairy tale retelling that is set in a fictional town called Beau Rivage that is a fairy tale town. Everyone is pretty much under a fairy tale cursed. Either as the one that is cursed or an honor bound which is basically the one who is supposed to break the curse.

MiraBelle or Mira is a girl who grew up away from Beau Rivage but wants to find about her the place where she was born. So on the eve of her sixteenth birthday she goes. Based on the cover I thought that it was going to be a Beauty and the Beast retelling instead it was actually a Sleeping Beauty retelling which was fine. It was actually the first fairy tale retelling that I have read. I really did enjoy in the book.  It was also neat to read about the other fairy tale characters in the town. I am looking forward to reading Tear You Apart which is a Snow White and huntsman retelling.

Review of Bewitching

Title: Bewitching

Author: Alex Flinn

Series:   sort of

Chapters:

Pages: 342

Genre: Fairy tales retold

Rating: 4 ½ stars

     Bewitching is sort of a sequel to Beastly in a way it is sort of Kendra’s story. It is also a retelling of Cinderella with a twist. Kendra befriends Emma who is sort of the Cinderella in the story. While Emma is suppose to be Cinderella she’s not the most beautiful girl in her school, but she is the only one who befriends Kendra. Lisette is the evil step-sister and the only thing that fits with the Cinderella story is that she is the evil step sister.

     I liked the retold fairy tale, even if Cinderella wasn’t really my favorite as a child. I loved that Alex gave more of Kendra’s story. You find out what happened to her to make her the way that she is, and why she made the choices she made. After reading Bewitching it seems to me like it’s just the first in a series of books about Kendra. Kendra is the witch from Beastly; which is also a movie all and all I enjoyed the book. However it wasn’t my favorite by Alex Flinn, Beastly is still my favorite by her. 

Review of Entwined

Title: Entwined

Author: Heather Dixon

Series:  

Chapters: 30

Pages: 472

Genre: Teen fairy tales retold

Rating: 4 ½ stars

     Entwined is a retelling of the twelve dancing Princesses. Each of the twelve princesses loves to dance. Azela is the oldest princes and heir to the throne.

     When the kingdom goes into a year of mourning the girls are probhited from to dancing. They find a secret room to dance and dance the night away. Like the classic fairy tale there is an evil that the princess has to face. Through technically no prince in the story there still is a hero. 

Movie Review of Beaslty

Title: Beastly

Studio: CBS

Actors/Actress: Vanessa Hudgens, Alex Pettyfer

Main Characters: Kyle, and Lindy

Genre: Chick flick

Rating: Pg-13

Format (How I saw the movie): DVD

Rating: 5 stars

     Beastly is based on the book Beastly by Alex Finn. If you haven’t read the book you will not notice the changes that they made with the movie. However the changes do not take away from the movie, it makes it unique. I enjoyed the movie for all it’s differences. I wasn’t comparing the two.

     Beastly is basically the story of Beauty and the Beast from Kyle’s (beast) point of view. It’s set in modern day New York. Kyle thinks that looks matter, but he’s about to find out how wrong he is.