In this retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” a prick of her finger sends Princess Bitsy to a discriminatory alternate reality where looks determine one’s status. There, she must challenge the realm’s mysterious, tyrannical ruler if she hopes to survive and return home.---Publisher's Weekly
******** From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Misfit comes a subversive and feminist take on Sleeping Beauty, sure to appeal to fans of Damsel and To Kill a Kingdom.
The dark and deadly world of Heartless meets the empowering twist of Cruel Beauty in this thrilling, unpredictable, multigenre retelling of one of the most beloved fairy tales: where instead of falling asleep to await her prince, this sleeping beauty finally wakes up.
Bitsy is no one’s ideal princess.
She’s heard it all: that it’s a shame she’s so plain, so lacking in grace. That the best thing for her to do is simply wait (and wait some more) and hope some prince will grant her a happy ending.
Then Bitsy pricks her finger on a spindle and falls down, down, down.
Into a world where cutthroats and con artists are more common than curtsies. Where no one ages and everyone is beautiful. Where an inscrutable evil rests at its core.
A land where Bitsy’s fate and her future are solely in her own hands—and neither are what she expects.---from the publisher
368 pages 978-0062422477 Ages 113-17
Keywords: fantasy and magic, fairy tales, self image, 13 year old, 14 year old, 15 year old, 16 year old
