The one in which two teens are pulled into the Sleeping Beauty, yup the Fairytale.
Promchanted is a YA contemporary but at the same time fantasy novel by American Author Morgan Matson.
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Who hasn’t dreamed about going into the fairytale world and meeting the princes and princesses, Stella Griffin that’s who. It wasn’t always this way though she too at some point had her ideals about true love and happily ever after that is until her breakup that too a few weeks before prom, all her plans go down the drain, but at least she will go to Disneyland for pre-prom with her best friend, of course, said best friend had to bring a guy who Stella did not get along with. There is more, Stella and this guy get sucked into Sleeping Beauty. Everybody knows that in time travel you cannot mess up the events, or the timeline so now Stella and Reece have to guide Philp and Aurora through the path to true love maybe they will learn a thing or two as well.
The characters and their relationships,
Stella, is shown as somebody who is very rational, strategic, and logical. She is someone who needs to have some sort of plan (almost obsessively) and cannot seem to believe that she is in a fairytale, yearning for a logical explanation. Truth be told at the start I found her annoying, but she and her ways totally grew on me, In real life If I met someone like her I would probably dislike her with all that planning and stuff. But this is booktopia, so her character has its highs and lows which gives it dimension and the growth is wonderful, at the starting she is uptight and a tad bit controlling but by the end, she has learned to live a little, become a bit spontaneous, obviously she was still Stella. I never said that being a planner is bad but it needs to be balanced all types of characters (and people) are needed in a story (and in life). Her cluelessness about the story, and how to act and talk in the fairytale was hilarious.
Reece, her love interest, is nice, he is flawed too obviously, but he knows all about Disney fairytales. He is the dreamer, Stella’s opposite, he was always worried about not messing up the story, and reading about him trying to work with Stella who as I mentioned above was quite clueless about everything was a lot of fun.
Their relationship did not seem fast or forced it was quite cute, right till the epilogue. Not really enemies to lovers, but not friends either it was something in between that I am not quite able to label.
Their dynamics with Aurora and Philip were so refreshing and it reminds us that the Disney characters as so young(Snow White was a bit too young, and the age gap, yikes!) I think whenever IÂ watch Sleeping Beauty next I will be able to empathize, understand, and relate with characters on a different level. Aurora and Philip’s relationship was lovely and very fairytale like but still not instant love, not if we go with Disney fairytales’ track record at least.
Age rating: 12+
Overall a good read, 4 stars, I think it will be liked by young readers more, but obviously I could be wrong, anyways, a nice & sweet romance(s), and good characters, I recommend it, though I probably won’t reread it.
Bye for now,
Yours,
A Fellow Bookworm
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