Incredibly beautiful and poetic, this book made me so happy. It is well written and the story will stick to your mind forever. Buy it!

A refreshing take on a classic story. The heroine was sweet and although not a beautiful princess, was someone you wanted to find love and happiness from the very first few pages.

Fairy tales are often so stuffed with allegory and other other such contrivances that the tales themselves are thin, weak fare, and the characters pale as spring ice… this was not that type of fairy tale. The characters may have been humble, but they were a rich feast of conflicting complexities, filled with surprising and beautiful human truths — in bits and pieces and sudden deluges, the way wisdom comes for us all. The language held the cadence and lushness of the most high-gothic fairy tale imaginable, but with a believable and artistic voice… it was scrumptious. And I agree, Ms. Kingfisher… the story IS sweet. Even if the Faerielands are as bright and dark and chaotic and deadly as I grew up knowing. So thank you, and my thanks to Toadling, for illuminating the path of this journey.

This was lovely and sweet. A beautiful different take on the story of Sleeping Beauty. From the first sentence to the last it was a joy to read.

Even if the greenteeth are monsters. It's a good little story, and mostly quiet and soothing and anout Doing One's Best.