Ivan, a college student in our time, finds a real Sleeping Beauty. Upon waking her, he travels back to the ninth century to find out what happens once the fairy tale ends.

The Ukrainian history. Yeah, this is a Ukrainian Sleeping Beauty, and she brings our fair Ivan into a world where everything about him that our society values has absolutely no merit. He's a good runner, so what? He can't wield a sword and he has no idea of the customs. I also loved her take on our time, specifically with how it made her realize how harsh she had been on him in the beginning.

Some of the experiences Card left out. I guess it might have bogged the book down in too many details, but I really wanted to know what Katerina thought of our matresses after sleeping on flea-ridden straw all her life.

As if the tale of Sleeping Beauty could have really happened. Card puts such a historical bend to this tale that it reads as true. Even the little bit of magic seems perfectly plausable.

It takes a premise I had little confidence in and turns it into an intelligent tale.

This is a part of my Reading Resolution:

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