Posts Tagged ‘fairytale retelling’
The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse ~ Blitz and Giveaway
Posted: May 12, 2016 in Blitz, giveaways, YA FantasyTags: Author Audrey Greathouse, fairytale retelling, giveaway, The Neverland Wars, YA Fantasy
The Friday 56 #38 ~ The Cinderella Theorem
Posted: September 26, 2014 in The Friday 56, YA FantasyTags: Author Kristee Ravan, fairytale retelling, The Cinderella Theorem, YA Fantasy
Welcome to The Friday 56 hosted by Freda’s Voice.
The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader and find a sentence or a few (no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.
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When I opened the book to page 56 it was a blank page! LOL
So I’m using something from page 5 and page 6 instead.
The Cinderella Theorem
The Lily Sparrow Chronicles
by Kristee Ravan
My 56
Page 5
“Oh! Fiddlesticks! I did it again! Matt’s going to kill me. I do fine for fifteen years and blow it on the last day.
Page 6
“Now, I need to work on getting the prince to fall in love with the princess, and you should probably get your homework done before dinner. I’m sure you’re going to have a lot to talk about with your dad.” She turned to go back to the office.
Are you kidding me? That’s the end of the conversation?
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Synopsis
Fairy tales are naturally non-mathematical. That is a fact, and fifteen-year-old Lily Sparrow loves factual, mathematical logic. So when her mother confesses that Lily’s deceased father is (a) not dead, (b) coming to dinner, and (c) the ruler of a fairy tale kingdom accessible through the upstairs bathtub, Lily clings to her math to help her make sense of this new double life (1 life in the real world + 1 secret life in the fairy tale world = a double life).
Even though it’s not mathematical, Lily finds herself being pulled into a mystery involving an unhappy Cinderella, a greasy sycophant called Levi, and a slew of vanishing fairy tale characters. Racing against the clock, with a sound mathematical plan, Lily attempts to save her fairy tale friends while proving that normality = happiness.
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Since I used pages 5 and 6 for my 56 post, I couldn’t help but become curious about what was really happening. So I went back to the beginning and started reading.
I’m now about one third through the book and smiling a lot!
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