An interesting take on the Sleeping Beauty tale. Using the part of the story not often looked at, where Sleeping Beauty became pregnant while in her enchanted sleep. In this story an Ogre makes Rosemarie pregnant and when she's awoken while giving birth, she decides that she needs to get her revenge. Faerie offer her a chance to get revenge, a long life to hunt Ogres, Faerie's enemy. She becomes legendary and the ogres decide that they have to resort to drastic measures.

It's an interesting take on the story and she's quite a good character, but there was no real sense of place or time. While it was set in the 1750's and England I felt that it could have been any time. I'm now looking forward to reading the second book in the series. ( )

A quasi take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with Rose having to fight for her life against dark fae and ogres, while trying to determine which man she can trust and love, a sensually handsome aristocratic vampire or her liaison and mentor for the past 100 years?

http://ktleyed.blogspot.com/2010/07/nights-rose-by-annaliese-evans.html ( )

"I have a love/hate relationship with this book. Why I love it: I love the old world charm and language use. I love the main character Rose. She was a strong character with deep emotional pain and a horrible past (won't go into it due to spoilers). I love the "men" of the book even after learning a bit more about their "secrets". What I did not like about it: I can't really tell you since it would ruin the book. But, nevertheless, there are twists and turns that are not explained clearly. Instead, the author reveals the secrets through Rose's own discovery but since the author doesn't detail how Rose fully discovered the twists (hard to explain without ruining the book), the reader goes from point A to point Z without anything in between. I found myself going back and rereading thinking two pages were stuck together. I usually "get" books easily but I really wanted the cheat sheet version for this book." ( )

This is a Historical Urban Fantasy... with a faerie tale twist. Sleeping Beauty to be more specific. I've never been a fan of Sleeping Beauty, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book, more than I thought I would.

This was an enchanting story. With all sorts of species from fantasy: ogre's, fairies, elves, trolls, vampires. Plus Rose has two very sexy companions, Ambrose and Lord Shenley who make the story even more intriguing. The three of them have a very interesting dynamic and I can't wait to see what unfolds for them in the next book. ( )

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