A Kiss in Time

     A Kiss in Time is a modern day fairytale retelling of Sleeping Beauty. I'm a sucker for fairytales and any kind of retelling. I was originally searching the Library for Beastly, but their copy was out at the time. Instead I grabbed A Kiss in Time to hold me off as I wait for Beastly to come back in.

     The writing in the book was OK. It was in the first person present tense narrative, and you should already know I have a thing against that type of narrative. Alex put a twist on it though, and switched between Talia's (Sleeping Beauty) and Jack's (true love) point of view. That was different, and sometimes confusing if you didn't pay attention to the name at the top of the chapter in order to know who was speaking. I had to go back and look a couple of times to remember, but mostly I just figured it out for myself if I forgot to look at the name.
     The pacing was nice. Not to fast, not to slow. Plot development was nice too. I liked how Alex Flinn used the concept of true love in this book. The true love prompted Jack to kiss Talia while she was asleep, but he refused to acknowledge it, saying it was because she was really beautiful. The story covered a week's time, and then the epilogue was a two years later deal, and I like how Alex concluded it. It was a nice retelling, and made me even more curious to read Beastly.
     The characters were great. Not even Talia with her gifts from the fairies was perfect. And how Alex portrayed Malvolia (Maleficent for the Disney peeps out there) was also unique. Malvolia wasn't evil for the sake of evilness, she was a woman scorned, just not in a romantic way.

     A Kiss in Time was a very easy and enjoyable read. It is a nice retelling of Sleeping Beauty and was enjoyable.

One of the goals for this blog is to provide information for parents and readers alike to find 'clean' reads suitable for their children or themselves. In my reviews I will give a rating and a reason for that rating.

       I would give A Kiss in Time a rating of light PG. I would recommend it for teens. Drinking, partying, and some immodest dress.

      On a scale of 1 to 5 (1 = horrible, 2 = OK, 3 = I liked it, 4 = I really liked it, 5 = I loved it), I would give A Kiss in Time a 3