Review : Sleeping Beauty :Vampire Slayer - Maureen McGowan

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Did you enjoy those choose your own adventure tales when you were growing up ? The ones that were written by RA Montgomery and then Goosebumps by RL Stine decided to do them. Well author Maureen McGowan has written two for Teens using the popular genres at the moment of Classic tales mixed with the Supernatural ?


Sleeping Beauty: Vampire Slayer (Twisted Tales)

Review : Sleeping Beauty- Vampire Slayer - Twisted Tales Series - Maureen McGowan - April 2011

As a child growing up on books , I used to love reading the choose your own adventure novels where you read a page and at the bottom of it , you chose an option which would send you to Pg 18 or Pg 29 and each time you would read it , something different would occur. You had no idea which way the story was going to lead you or how it ended as in the end that final page was all your own doing , your decision making skills. In a way, it was like you were the author or narrator of the story and depending what you wanted to happen was the way your story was going to be told.
We all know the tale of Sleeping Beauty , the one where when she was born - her mother held an audience with the witches and one bad witch was univinted , then  she turned up a put a curse on the babe and though the witches could not reverse the curse completely, they did put in a place - a way the spell could be broken. In Sleeping Beauty, Vampire Slayer it works the similar way , when Sleeping beauty is born , her mother invites the Faeries and goes against her husband's wishes and disinvities the Vampire Queen. The Vampire Queen arrives and puts a curse on the babe , which when she turns 16 , she will sleep during the day and awake only at night and the rest of the village will awake during the day and sleep at night.
Sleeping Beauty then meets her match as she decides that as she is only awake at night and it was the Vampires that caused her pain -that she would turn the pain to slaying them. Sleeping Beauty , Vampire Slayer though is a choose your own adventure and at the end of each chapter or sections as they are called , you are given two options to choose from and which ever one you agree on will lead you down a different path.
A Choose your own Adventure made especially for The teen/ YA Audience :)






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