{Guest Post/Giveaway} "Five Ways My Sleeping Beauty Is Way Cooler Than The One We Grew Up With!" by GATHERING FROST Author Kaitlyn Davis
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I got to be on tour with Kaitlyn Davis last month when she released the first book in her Once Upon a Curse series, GATHERING FROST. I quite enjoyed the start of her series of stand-alone fairy tales and think you will, too!
Check out my review to receive an extra entry in the giveaway for a SIGNED PAPERBACK copy of your very own!
(See below for details)
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Always blessed with an overactive imagination, Kaitlyn has been writing ever since she picked up her first crayon and is overjoyed to share her work with the world. When she's not daydreaming, typing stories, or getting lost in fictional worlds, Kaitlyn can be found indulging in some puppy videos, watching a little too much television, or spending time with her family.
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Five Ways My Sleeping Beauty Is Way Cooler
Than The One We Grew Up With!
by Kaitlyn Davis
Than The One We Grew Up With!
by Kaitlyn Davis
Okay, I have to start by admitting that I am totally Disney
obsessed and think each princess is absolutely perfect in her own way. I may be
partial to Belle and Ariel, but Sleeping
Beauty is still a Disney classic I could rewatch again and again and again!
But when updating a fairy tale, a writer is allowed to take liberties—and take liberties I did! Jade, the sleeping beauty in my novel, is completely different than the Aurora we all know and love. She's tougher, more modern, and made for a post-apocalyptic world. So here are five ways I think my princess kicks some Disney ass :)
1) She's not in a
spell-induced coma during the major action!
Jade's curse isn't one of actual
sleep—it's her heart that is cursed. It's frozen over and she's in an emotional
sleep—unable to love, but still able to kick butt during the entirety of the
novel.
2) No insta-love for our prince and princess!
2) No insta-love for our prince and princess!
While Aurora and the prince met once upon a dream
and fell in love during their first dance in the woods, Jade and Prince Asher
don't start out quite so smoothly. He puts a gun to her head, she punches him
in the face, he takes her captive, she tries to escape…you know, the usual!
3) She doesn't need a
prince to fight her battles!
Jade can slay her own dragons, thank you very
much! She's independent and a fighter, and pulls off some pretty awesome
actions scenes during the course of the novel.
4) No fairy gifts of
beauty or song!
Jade is just a plain old human, no extra magic-induced
gifts or fairy friends. She has to rely on her own strength to overcome the
battle ahead.
5) Character growth
takes center stage!
While princess Aurora pretty much remains her kind
beautiful self from start, to curse induced sleep, to finish—Jade has a tough
road to overcome and she changes a lot along the way, all for the better. And
those are the characters I enjoy reading about the most.
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O F F I C I A L I N F O:
Title: GATHERING FROST
Author: Kaitlyn Davis
Author: Kaitlyn Davis
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Publisher: Kaitlyn Davis
Received: For Review
Received: For Review
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GATHERING FROST can be ordered in paperback from your favorite retailer!
It's currently available as an e-book exclusively from Amazon for $2.99
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SUMMARY:Will his kiss be enough to revive her frozen heart?
Once Upon A Time meets La Femme Nikita in GATHERING FROST, a dystopian romance from bestselling author Kaitlyn Davis that reimagines the classic fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty.
Jade was only a little girl when the earthquake struck. Before her eyes, half of New York City disappeared, replaced by a village that seemed torn out of a storybook. Horses and carriages. Cobblestone streets. A towering castle. And, above all, a queen with the magical ability to strip emotions away.
Ten years later and Jade has forgotten what it is to feel, to care...even to love. Working as a member of the queen's guard, she spends most of her time on the city wall staring at the crumbling skyscrapers of old New York. But everything changes when the queen's runaway son, Prince Asher, returns. Jade is tasked with an unusual mission--to let the Prince capture her, to make him trust her, and then to betray his secrets to the crown. In return, she'll earn her freedom. But life outside the queen's realm is more than Jade bargained for. Under Asher's relentless taunts, her blood begins to boil. Under his piercing gaze, her heart begins to flutter. And the more her icy soul begins to thaw, the more Jade comes to question everything she's ever known--and, more importantly, whose side she's really on.
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GATHERING FROST
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A SIGNED PAPERBACK
of
GATHERING FROST
by Kaitlyn Davis!
(US Only)
This giveaway ends April 22nd at midnight, EST.
To enter, make sure you are registered on the FTF giveaway registry, and then fill out the Rafflecopter form below.
Good luck!
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