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| Title | : | A Long, Long Sleep (UniCorp #1) |
| Author | : | Anna Sheehan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | August 9th 2011 by Candlewick |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy |
Anna Sheehan
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.83 | 7194 Users | 1179 Reviews
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It should have been a short suspended-animation sleep. But this time Rose wakes up to find her past is long gone-- and her future full of peril.Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew. Now, her parents and her first love are long gone, and Rose-- hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire-- is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Desperate to put the past behind her and adapt to her new world, Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake, hoping that he can help her to start fresh. But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence, Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes-- or be left without any future at all.
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| Original Title: | A Long, Long Sleep |
| ISBN: | 0763652601 (ISBN13: 9780763652609) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=Title&mode=book&isbn=0763652601&pix=n |
| Series: | UniCorp #1 |
| Characters: | Rosalinda Fitzroy |
| Literary Awards: | Golden Duck Award for Young Adult (Hal Clement Award) (2012) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 7194 Users | 1179 ReviewsCriticize About Books A Long, Long Sleep (UniCorp #1)
Do you know when you tried to love a book, watering it the way you might a tomato plant along fruit row, but for whatever reason it continues to disappoint you time and time again? Not taking the water and the sunlight and shrinking from your every touch, confined to shrivel up and die, and give you the finger as it leaves the universe. Thats what I thought of A LONG, LONG SLEEP. I wanted to like this book and going into it, like that pesky tomato plant, I had every intention of liking it, butI will warn anyone interested right now that I love and dislike this book in fairly equal measure. I began fearful that the book would not surpass a 2 star rating but the story did improve. I will also point out that this book is an anomaly as it is the only one on my i-cried shelf which I have not rated 5 stars. I tend to love books that can wring intense emotion from me and though this book did so, my issues with other parts of the book are too many and severe to ignore or warrant 5 stars.I
Sort of a dystopian version of Sleeping Beauty, this book is intriguing but very predictable. I liked the characters, but I think it could've used more suspense and surprises.
This was surprisingly good!Im not big on Science-Fiction. I have read and watched my share of Science-Fiction books and movies but I dont really know all that much about this particular genre and as long as I can somewhat relate to the fictive world I am presented with and dont think its utterly stupid, I am happy. This is Science-Fiction, right? Not dystopian? Sorry, I am a little fuzzy on the difference between the two.In the present case I thought that the post-apocalyptic world wasnt very
A Long, Long Sleep reached "page turner" status for me. The set up was very intriguing. It reminded me a bit of Beth Revis' Across the Universe. At its core this novel was about something else entirely. (view spoiler)[I thought the way the emotional abuse was displayed was very realistic. This book will hit home for anyone who has ever been a victim of emotional abuse at the hands of a relative (or at the hands of anyone really). It certainly brought up some emotions in me and caused me to look
A heartbreaking psychological drama with traces of the classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, that goes way beyond the normally used and abused clichés, focusing instead on one girl's psychological path to recovery.In a way this reminds me of another novel, _ This Is Not A Test_ in the sense that you're expecting something, but in the end, you end up with a completely different tale.In fact, both these two stories have a somewhat dystopic post-apocalyptic setting, but in the end, what really
I honestly don't know how I would categorize A Long, Long Sleep beyond a mix of all things good. Dystopian-ish, sci-fi-ish, romantic-ish, mysterisy-ish.Anna Sheehan painted us a world in a time where the concepts of life are still ultimately the same with the new wave of electronics and communication systems, along with evolving transportation and fad words, in a light which left me truly seeing the slightly foreign world from Rosalinda Fitzroy's eyes. The sci-fi-ish-ness (love that word there?)
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