There was just a repetition of already known events and inconsequential filler scenes without which this would have been a brilliant read and only half its current length. I can't point out what prolonged this story, at all. I adore slower-paced reads with slow building, suspense, intense character studies, or evocative depictions of the landscape. The story-line was, in theory, a compelling one but I found the pacing too slow for me to care overly much. Whilst there was nothing inherently wrong with it, it just didn't fill me with any feelings. This had such an intriguing premise and had such potential to be a completely bad-ass book. I was immediately more invested in this, than the first book, from the very first line of, "A dragon was dead." The prologue set the story up nicely but I did not, however, appreciate all of the character traits and found the main character, Aurora, to be a little vapid, shallow, and ungrateful, which had me struggling to empathise with her plight. Or, if she does, it probably won't be true love's kiss to awaken her.
Once Upon a Dream is the tale of a Sleeping Beauty who might never wake up. This is the second instalment in a series of Disney-inspired retellings by Liz Braswell.
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