While staying at his Cousin Marek's farm Ivan comes upon a clearing in the Carpathian forest. On top of a pedestal encircled by leaves a girl lay as though she were dead. After a closer look, Ivan realizes that she is only sleeping. However, as Ivan moves closer a monster stirs and sends the ten-year-old boy running. Years later, Ivan becomes an American graduate student and is engaged to a girl named Ruth. Still he can't forget the day in the forest when he saw the sleeping girl. He tries to tell himself it was just a dream, but he can't convince himself. On a research assignment on fairy tales, Ivan goes back to his native land, Russia, and soon finds himself playing the part of the prince in a twisted Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. The only scary part is - it's real.

How realistic the problems were. Many authors don't think about or write about the sort of problems time travelling would create, but the author was very realistic about it. He did add fantasy to it, but that's what made the book fun.

the fact that at some times the book did get a little redundant and boring, but these parts were very short and came about seldomly.

Is very clever for putting this sort of twist on a fairy tale.

It is fun to read and is an interesting sort of Sleeping Beauty story. The author definitely makes it more realistic, or as realistic as a fairy tale can get.

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