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A Long, Long Sleep
by Anna Sheehan
by Anna Sheehan
Kate's review
bookshelves: age-ya, arcs, 2011, dystopia, sci-fi, fairytales
Mar 23, 11
bookshelves: age-ya, arcs, 2011, dystopia, sci-fi, fairytales
Read from March 22 to 23, 2011
I read this ARC via NetGalley.
In this sci-fi take on Sleeping Beauty, Rose is the daughter of rich corporate CEOs, and has just been awoken from her stasis tube by a kiss. The "prince" is Bren, who is fairly shocked and freaked out when Rose awakens... especially after she tells him her name. Turns out Rose has been in stasis for 62 years. Her parents and boyfriend are long gone, and since her parents never left a will, their company, UniCorp, has suddenly returned to her ownership.
As Rose tries to understand the world as it is now, after a plague wiped out most of the earth's population only a few years after she was put into stasis, some disturbing facts come to her attention. One - the frequency with which her parents put her into stasis was not normal. Two - she may be 16, but she's actually over 100 years old. And three - someone is trying to kill her.
I blew through this book so fast. Rose was a fascinating character, with her memory gaps from stasis and her relationship with Xavier. She was 6 years old when he was born, but because of her frequent "stassing", by the time they reached adolescence they were the same age. Otto, an alien science experiment, was another interesting character (although the blue skin made me instantly think of "Avatar"). It was a thrilling ride to get to the bottom of this mystery, and the connections to Sleeping Beauty were well done.
Rose's 62-year disappearance made learning about this futuristic world easy. The futuristic slang sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. I hated when the character used "comm" instead of "know" or "comprehend" (I'm guessing that's the origin word), but I loved the use of the word "coit" instead of... a certain four-letter word (origin word is probably "coitus"). Unless you actually count "coit" as a swear, this was a clean read. Rose's attitude for most of the novel is very child-like and innocent. The end was a bit disturbing with the age differences going on, but at least the characters also felt uncomfortable about it, so it wasn't TOO creepy.
In this sci-fi take on Sleeping Beauty, Rose is the daughter of rich corporate CEOs, and has just been awoken from her stasis tube by a kiss. The "prince" is Bren, who is fairly shocked and freaked out when Rose awakens... especially after she tells him her name. Turns out Rose has been in stasis for 62 years. Her parents and boyfriend are long gone, and since her parents never left a will, their company, UniCorp, has suddenly returned to her ownership.
As Rose tries to understand the world as it is now, after a plague wiped out most of the earth's population only a few years after she was put into stasis, some disturbing facts come to her attention. One - the frequency with which her parents put her into stasis was not normal. Two - she may be 16, but she's actually over 100 years old. And three - someone is trying to kill her.
I blew through this book so fast. Rose was a fascinating character, with her memory gaps from stasis and her relationship with Xavier. She was 6 years old when he was born, but because of her frequent "stassing", by the time they reached adolescence they were the same age. Otto, an alien science experiment, was another interesting character (although the blue skin made me instantly think of "Avatar"). It was a thrilling ride to get to the bottom of this mystery, and the connections to Sleeping Beauty were well done.
Rose's 62-year disappearance made learning about this futuristic world easy. The futuristic slang sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. I hated when the character used "comm" instead of "know" or "comprehend" (I'm guessing that's the origin word), but I loved the use of the word "coit" instead of... a certain four-letter word (origin word is probably "coitus"). Unless you actually count "coit" as a swear, this was a clean read. Rose's attitude for most of the novel is very child-like and innocent. The end was a bit disturbing with the age differences going on, but at least the characters also felt uncomfortable about it, so it wasn't TOO creepy.
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