Deeply unlikeable protagonist - dismissive of the consequences of her actions and their effect on the people closest to her and unable to think beyond the needs of her lady parts. Never learns a lesson from her own behaviour and I can't get past how much she irritates me. By the time she begins to grow up, I'd already had more than enough of her.I'm listening to the audiobook, so I'm also having to endure the bizarre (and very annoying) singing/speaking used for the character of Rose. Want to give up at 50% but I'll tough it out. This is such a wasted opportunity as the basic idea is intriguing but gets lost in the attempts at erotica. I have no issues with the protagonist being in charge of her own sexuality, but her desperation and lack of forethought are thoroughly unattractive. Unfortunately this one is more along a 1,5 stars. And i say unfortunately because the story did sound promising. A retelling of sleeping beauty told by a young woman, Talia, who sees her life being altered due to a royal decree: All spinning wheels in the kingdom must be destroyed, in order to protect the life of princess Aurora fom her sleeping beauty curse.The beginning, let me tell you, that it was very interesting. Those first pages really took me by surprise, and i was really looking forward to a different and interesting retelling.Unfortunately things didn't worked out, because after that, nothing really interesting happens, and the book takes an overly sexual characterization. An a strange one, because i honestly don't see what was the point. Basically Talia gets involved with the young man with whom she was to be married. And i say to whom, because after she and her mother loose their way of survival and of income, his father decides to send him to a monastery. The thing is, one doesn't feel any kind of romance, because Talia is a very distanced character. And her sudden interest in Willard, just seems strange...In the following pages there's more despictions of her sexual encounters with other guys, while she goes on with her life. The situation doesn't become thrashy, because the narrative just feels empty of almost any known feeling. It ends up being a void book...Some new characters enter the scene, namely a young girl named Rose, to whom Talia will get attached. Then Talia's mother will decide to ignore the royal decree, and in hiding, they will decide to built the only spinning wheel in the kingdom.Time passes by, and Talia finally realizes that what she felt for Willard was love after all...The last pages, much like the first ones, were okay, i guess, but beyond that, i'm afraid that it was a pretty forggetable tale, i'm sorry to say.
What do You think about The Sevenfold Spell (2010)?
Gosh! I just LOVED this book. Sad there wasn't more, but very good and worth the read.
—kikalot
Delightful, thought-provoking and emotionally satisfying. Made me cry. *happy sigh*
—gabe684
