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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2009
Gr 5-8 An agreeable, fluffy expansion of "Sleeping Beauty," this novel conflates the traditional story with that of an American teenage boy. Talia (the princess) has the world's most overprotective parentsnot without reason, of course. Seventeen-year-old Jack's pa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2009
Just before her sixteenth birthday, beautiful, headstrong Princess Talia of Euphrasia pricks her finger on a spindle; according to the causative curse, the entire kingdom will sleep until Talia's true love awakens her with a kiss. Flash forward three hundred years and Jack, a Florida teen on an educational tour of Europe, enters the scene. One fateful kiss later, Talia is helping Jack escape the castle dungeon—on the condition that he ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
In this frothy, fun-filled update of "Sleeping Beauty," Princess Talia is awakened by Jack, a Florida teen--then demands he take her...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on May 1, 2009
A funny, irreverent romantic adventure, A Kiss in Time manages to skip between two very different characters’ points of view while still remaining sweet and engrossing. Alex Flinn handles the voices of her main characters (selfish, sulky Jack and spoiled, temperamental Talia)—and their subsequent transformations—with affection and good humor. Talia is initially the more appealing of the two protagonists. Like many modern teenagers, she longs for her restrictive parents to relax their grasp for even a moment, and her bratty behavior can be t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
