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Slumber (The Slumber Duology #1)
by Christy Sloat
Release Date: March 16th 2015
Summary from Goodreads:
Not all princesses get their happily ever after...
They tell me I killed my boyfriend Phillip in cold blood. I stabbed him twenty one times. I’m only seventeen years old, and I am serving life in Spindle Ridge Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
I don’t remember killing him, so it’s really hard to believe I’m capable of murder. In fact I don’t remember anything before I came to Spindle Ridge, not even my boyfriend.
I can only grasp onto my realistic dreams while the madness of the asylum threatens to pull me under. I dream I’m a beautiful princess and there is an evil faerie named Maleficent who is bent on my destruction. The dreams are the closest thing I have to memories of my life, except they aren’t real.
I’m crazy. I’m not a princess.
They’re the mad illusions of an irrational teenage girl, right?
They’ve assigned me a new doctor, and she says I can trust her, and that she’ll help me see the truth of who I really am.
When she arrived she brought a new patient, Sawyer, who is everything Spindle Ridge isn’t: exciting, mysterious and beautiful. He promises he’s here to rescue me. Trusting either of them frightens me.
Could it be possible that my dreams are more than just the imaginings of a delusional girl? Could they be truth?
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Review
One year ago, Rory (Aurora) was committed to an asylum
for the criminally insane. Problem is, she cannot remember anything from before
the asylum, including what she supposedly did to be put there—murdering her
boyfriend, Philip. Every night she has the same dream. Then, things start to
change. The dreams are different, a young man named Sawyer enters the asylum, and
a new doctor is hired. Rory begins to realize that things are not quite as they
seem, and the fairytale book she is given just might have some truth to it.
Slumber
was a pretty awesome book! It hooked me from the beginning and kept me yearning
for more. I have read many fairytale retellings, and this “Sleeping Beauty”
tale was well worth the reading. I loved the personalities of the characters,
the detail of the setting, the dream flash-backs, and the captivating writing.
The setting was an insane asylum in a fairytale
kingdom. I cannot go into many of the details, but the evil Dr. M. went to
great lengths to make Rory remember, because what fun is torturing someone who
cannot understand why she is suffering? I did not fully understand all of the
reasons Maleficent created the asylum. The logic was stretched a little. One
thing is for sure, though, I would not want to be in that asylum and I hope
there are none so horrible in existence!
The romance was kind of sweet. A boy who is
willing to go into such a horrible place to rescue his love. But what I do not
like about it was the previous love triangle between Philip, Sawyer, and Rory.
Rory was engaged to Philip, but it was arranged and he was often away. So she
fell in love with Sawyer. My problem is that she was not willing to fight for
Sawyer and instead just secretly dated him with no hope for the future. I do
not like it when people cheat. If she would have broken the engagement…I mean,
it was not as though she loved Philip to begin with. Everything worked out well
enough for the story, but I still had an issue with the cheating.
Overall, I enjoyed Slumber very much and I look forward to book two, as this one ends
in a bit of a cliffhanger. I recommend it to teens and young adults who enjoy romantic
fantasy and fairytale retellings.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange
for an honest review.
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