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    Sleeping Beauty
    Sleeping Beauty
    Sleeping Beauty
    Audiobook9 hours

    Sleeping Beauty

    Written by Phillip Margolin

    Narrated by Suzanne Houston

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    Author Miles Van Meter is on a book tour to promote his sensational bestseller Sleeping Beauty, a true-crime account of a deeply personal subject: the attack by a serial killer that left his twin sister, Casey, in a coma. Tonight the audience waits to hear Miles discuss recent developments in his sister's case -- unaware that pieces of this complex puzzle of violence, unknown even to the author, are about to be revealed.

    Six years earlier, life was much simpler for everyone involved, especially seventeen-year-old Ashley Spencer, a popular high school soccer star. Then one night an intruder entered Ashley's home and murdered her father and her best friend. Traumatized and suffering from a crippling sense of survivor guilt, Ashley is ready to give up on both soccer and life until help comes from an unexpected source -- a scholarship to an elite private school is extended to her by school dean Casey Van Meter. The school quickly becomes a haven for both Ashley and her mother, Terri. As Ashley regains her sense of self through the school's soccer program, Terri joins a writing group for adults led by Joshua Maxfield, a former literary wunderkind who has disappeared from the bestseller lists since his second book was panned by both critics and fans.

    Then tragedy strikes again and Ashley has to run for her life, unaware that the key to her survival is in the one book she's afraid to read -- Sleeping Beauty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMar 23, 2004
    ISBN9780060755744
    Author

    Phillip Margolin

    Phillip Margolin has written nineteen novels, many of them New York Times bestsellers, including his latest novels Woman with a Gun, Worthy Brown’s Daughter, Sleight of Hand, and the Washington trilogy. Each displays a unique, compelling insider’s view of criminal behavior, which comes from his long background as a criminal defense attorney who has handled thirty murder cases. Winner of the Distinguished Northwest Writer Award, he lives in Portland, Oregon.

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    • 4/5
      This book has lots of twists and turns. Just when you think you have figured out the murderer you find you were wrong. If you like murder mysteries you'll love this one.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely great murder mystery! I was kept in suspense all the way to the end of the book. Many twists and turns along the way to mislead you!
    • 4/5
      Interesting story with a twist at the end.
    • 4/5
      While this book doesn't supplant UNTIE MY HEART or THE PROPOSITION as my favorite Judith Ivory novels, it was memorable enough to revisit in the future.

      Coco was an original heroine, and I enjoyed both her independence, her maturity, and her unrepentant past. Ivory was particularly clever with how she signaled Coco and James's happily ever after (normally a heroine sleeping with the hero is the sure sign of their devotion and HEA-ness, but for a former courtesan, that won't work).

      As much as I enjoyed Coco, I enjoyed James even more. Seen through Coco's eyes, he is a singular hero. I loved the build up of their attraction, and their first love scene scorched off the pages. While many heros are proported to be guiless and forceful, the details Ivory choses for James truly made me see him that way. I'll certainly remember his charisma and sexual chemistry, in addition to those human scenes that allowed him to blossom as a character ( The bat at the opera comes to mind: "James screamed. No other word for it.").

      Both Coco and James were in situations that seemed destined forheart break(in terms of society, politics, and realities of colonialism), but Ivory softened reality just enough to promise happiness without completely losing plausibility. A thoroughly entertaining and charming story.
    • 3/5
      In the interesting thriller, a young woman proves that her father and friend we not killed by the serial killer her uncle claims murdered them. Twists and turns keep up the suspense. This is a good beach book.
    • 4/5
      The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault is a fairy tale about a princess who is cursed from her birth. She falls asleep for 100 years until a prince’s son comes to wake her up. This was a very good book and I loved the way it was written. The illustrations were great. Some of the illustrations were very detailed while others looked relatively simple. In addition, some of the pictures were in black and white and some were in color. This book was a great read. One of my favorite parts of the story is that it includes sheet music for songs that could be played during the book. I thought that was really neat. I’m not sure of the main message, but if I had to guess I would say the message is to accept life however it is because no matter what it will be okay. Overall, I liked this story.
    • 3/5
      The story begins with a king and queen who desperately wants a child. When the queen gives birth to their daughter, seven fairies bestow a gift upon the princess. However, when an evil fairy places a deadly curse on the princess, one of the fairies counters the curse so that when the princess pricks her finger on a spinning wheel, she falls into a deep sleep until a prince gives her a kiss. I found the book interesting and I love the illustrations. But the story was fast-paced that I had to re-read the story to understand that one hundred years had passed before the prince appeared. I would definitely introduce this story to children during a lesson about fairy tales,
    • 4/5
      The king and queen had a child who was the princess. At the age of sixteen she would prink her finger on a spinning wheel and would sleep for a hundred years until a prince would kiss her and awake her. The prince and sleeping beauty got married and had a child of their own. This would be a good book to read to children about kings and queens, and princesses and princes to give them a better understanding of what they really are.
    • 3/5
      The story begins with a little girl name Little Red Riding Hood. And it is all about her take a basket of goodies to her sick grandmother. On her way she meet a wolf. The wolf gets to grandmother house first in order to eat Little Red Riding Hood. So more characters are being interduce into the story and it goes on to explain what happens when the wolf gets to grandma house first. I think the children enjoyed this book only because it had a big bad wolf in it. The kids were so surprise about what the wolf did to grandma when he made it to her house. In this books he eats her but I think in other book he hides her in the closet. So the kids where asking if the grandmother was died. I told them they have to let me read the rest of the story to find out the ending. So by time I was done they where at the end of there seat wanting more. Over all good book.To add to the book reading you could talk about the importance of not talking to strangers. Because if Little Red Riding Hood didn’t tell the wolf where she was going in the woods. He wouldn’t have beat her to grandma house. Then you could have the older kids put on a play for the younger children. Most older kids love to be the center of attention and the younger kids just love a show.