The Sleeping Beauty

De: Russell Nohelty

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Fairy tales are real.

Rose Briar is a diabetic college student without insurance. She’s been scraping by through a combination of maxing out credit cards and relying upon the kindness of strangers.

Unfortunately, she’s spent every dollar at her disposal. There’s no money left to buy her life-saving insulin.

Without her medication, Rose falls into a diabetic coma. She tumbles into a deep slumber and wakes up in a fantastical place called the Dream Realm, where fairy tales and legends of old are still very much alive.

She has one chance to wake up.

She must trek across the world, visit the most powerful object in the land, the Obsidian Spindle, and entreat with the fates; the only beings powerful enough to send her soul back to Earth.

But evil forces don’t want her to leave. They will stop at nothing to capture her and make sure she never goes home again.

Now, with the help of her half-gorgon girlfriend and a mysterious red rider, Rose must race across the land fighting dragons, monsters, and the forces of the Wicked Witch, Nimue, in order to reach the Obsidian Spindle before her body dies on Earth and she’s trapped in the Dream Realm forever.

Will she be able to wake up? Can she survive? Find out by reading The Sleeping Beauty today. If you love mythology, fairy tales, and dark fantasy, then you’ll love the first book in The Obsidian Spindle Saga.

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AI narriation didn't help the story

I really wish I knew before purchasing that this was an AI narriation, as it took away all emotion and inflection that human readers give stories.

3.5 stars. I really wanted to like this book and parts of it I did. I enjoyed the interesting take on the dream and nightmare realms. I really appreciated how the author changed fairy tales that we know into stories that were twisted from the dream realm. His take on God's and their powers was also very unexpected and interesting. I did not like that one of the FMC was called stupid by everyone because she just didn't know things. The multiple POV's also got a little confusing for me, as it didnt always seem to be needed.