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"Clever fun."-- Kirkus Reviews
"Incorporating suspense and romance, this contemporary, edgy, Grimm-based novel is an entertaining and well-written entry in the crowded but popular genre."-- Booklist
Mirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday--and discovers a world she never could have imagined.
In Beau Rivage, nothing is what it seems--the strangely pale girl with a morbid interest in apples, the obnoxious playboy who's a beast to everyone he meets, and the chivalrous guy who has a thing for damsels in distress. Here, fairy tales come to life, curses are awakened, and ancient stories are played out again and again.
But fairy tales aren't pretty things, and they don't always end in happily ever after. Mira has a role to play, a fairy tale destiny to embrace or resist. As she struggles to take control of her fate, Mira is drawn into the lives of two brothers with fairy tale curses of their own . . . brothers who share a dark secret. And she'll find that love, just like fairy tales, can have sharp edges and hidden thorns.
Author Notes
Sarah Cross loves fairy tales in all their incarnations. Her first novel, Dull Boy, is about another kind of myth--superheroes. Visit her online at www.sarahcross.com
Reviews (1)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 8 Up-Although Mirabelle loves her godmothers like family, for her 16th birthday, she wishes nothing more than to visit her parents' graves. Mira respects that it is the one place that they have forbidden her to go, but the teenager breaks all the rules by running away, determined to find closure. What Mira finds in Beau Rivage only leads to more questions. Beau Rivage is a town full of secrets, based on the fairy tales that everyone thinks they know by heart. The teen is amazed to learn that the birthmark that she's always been ashamed of actually denotes that she has a role to play in a fairy-bestowed curse. Not only is Mira to play the part of a sleeping beauty, but her group of new friends in Beau Rivage all have their own marks and fairy tale destinies. Mira realizes that these are not the happy endings that most little girls dream of, but dark destinies that could lead to disfigurement or even death. With her birthday looming, a date which a fairy has hinted may be a very "significant" day in her life, Mira has to escape her curse and the dangerous romantic relationship in which she's become entangled. Kim Mai Guest reads Sarah Cross's story (Egmont USA, 2012), infusing it with the authentic sound of a temperamental teenager trying to find her place in the world. She balances Mira's naivete with sass, and vocalizes the girl's varied moods and gradual descent into disenchanted reality. Listeners will be fascinated with the world that Cross has created.- Jessica Miller, West Springfield Public Library, MA (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.