Sleeping Handsome eBook Jean Haus
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This is a novelette length modern fairy tale.
Paige should have never agreed to do her best friend’s semester English project. Community service sucks. Especially when you have a major social life. But it’s that or possible expulsion from school. Reading to a boy in a coma is just plain creepy, but her English teacher somehow thinks her acting skills make it the perfect community service match.
But when she finds the boy’s journal hidden among his books, things turn from creepy to interesting. Very interesting. The boy who looked like death slowly comes alive as she reads his own words to him. And each day Paige is wishing more and more he would wake up.
*And a warning for those sensitive to profanity, this story contains some.
Sleeping Handsome eBook Jean Haus
This is a cute, short story in need of a better cover!(Yea, you got one!) It is similar in feel to Kels Barnholt's What's Meant To Be (Westport High) or Ann Herrick's Snowed in Together. Although there is no sex, there is profanity (f-word, etc) so I would recommend to the older YA.Zack has been in an accident that has left him in a coma and Paige has cheated on a paper which earns her public service hours. Because of her theatrical background, she is assigned to read to Zack in hopes of stimulating his mind. She is totally grossed out by this and is very superficial when we meet her. Both Zack and Paige have been acting a part to please others, and it is by reading his diary aloud to him that she begins to fall in love with him and becomes challenged to make changes in her own life.
This story was fun to watch unfold and might have made a great full length novel. Of course, because of its brevity the characters and plot were not hashed out and the ending was sweet, predictable and yet abrupt. As a free download, it was certainly entertaining and a great taste of this author's creativity and I would read more from this author.
Would I/Did I buy it? Free Download
Would I read it again? No
Would I recommend it to friends? Yes
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Sleeping Handsome eBook Jean Haus Reviews
I might be a bit long in the tooth for YA stories, especially those that are based on fairy tales, but I still love the ones that are truly great stories that just happen to have characters who are young--which is true of this one. I have a great fondness of coming-of-age stories, because adolescence is the critical and dangerous time of life when our personalities are still fluid enough to allow major changes in who we are (and for many people the final time.) The choices young people make in their late teens may determine if they grow into full, functional, well-rounded adults with character, integrity, and a true sense of self or get frozen into an as-if stereotype that they have adopted instead and lock themselves into being incomplete, insecure, and dysfunctional persons who allow others to define them. The two main characters in this story are balanced on that very edge of those very dramatic, vital, and scary decisions, with potentially serious and even deadly consequences that will have to be faced if they choose to grow a backbone. My only complaint about this novella is the ending, but I can't say why without spoilers. So if I had some problems with the ending, why am I giving the book 5-stars. Simple, because the story leading up to that ending was worth 6-stars.
This is an inspiring, innocent, and honest love story. The kind of story that will tug and pull at your heart strings long after the last page. Being such a short story readers will crave more of this wonderfully talented author's style. Paige is a young girl that has traded popularity for something real. Years she has spent bending to her, so called, friend's every whim. Just her luck, the most recent event has proven to cost her more than she was willing to give. To avoid expulsion she has agreed to community service in exchange for her teacher agreeing to look the otherway about her current situation. Only she never anticipated her community service would involve daily readings to a young man only a year older than herself that has been comtatose for the past couple months. His mother is determined to try every means neccessary to bring her son back. After researching studies proving patients with regular interaction had higher recovery rates; she set out to make it happen. This is where Paige finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation of daily visits for the sole purpose of reading to Zach while his mother is at work. What begins as a job soon turns into Paige's favorite passtime. This is a very awkward transition where Paige is very overwhelmed by the machines and the unconcious boy laying in the bed, but as time shifts and her time grows she finds her comfort growing. After reading through several books she comes across Zach's private journal hidden within the bookshelf. After much diliberation she decides to read his journal, and learn more about the boy which she has grown fond of. This was such a truly incredible book, but the fact is nothing really happened in the story. Every single day, Paige reports to Zach's bedroom where he lays on a hospital bed, and machines make sure that his body continuing to work as normal. So, she just talks about her life, or what they are reading in his journal, or what type of person she thinks he was, anything and everything and she just keeps talking. As they journey through Zach's past everything begins shifting for Paige where she used to be so uncomfortable and uneasy; she now finds herself drawn to this boy that she really doesn't know. Paige knows that he probably can not hear anything she says, but interacts with him by commenting and analyzing everything. She even begins discovering their common traits, and making changes in her own life as a result. As this relationship (for lack of a better word) grows she finds herself overlooking Zach's current state and noticing him as a person. It was as if the journal gave him life, and allowed her to meet the person. Then oe day, it all falls apart when Paige is visiting Zach's, and his Mother informs her that the family needs to move forward; and her assist will no long be necessary. As Paige returns to Zach's room for her one last moment with the boy she has come to care so deeply for it is a heart wrenching and earth shattering moment. This was a wonderful and inspiring story about truth and honesty. I loved every minute, and my only complaint is that it is over. Paige and Zach are incredible characters for an equally incredible story. Anyone looking for a deep and thoughtful story should take a chance on this short story. BookWhisperer Recommended Read.
This is a cute, short story in need of a better cover!(Yea, you got one!) It is similar in feel to Kels Barnholt's What's Meant To Be (Westport High) or Ann Herrick's Snowed in Together. Although there is no sex, there is profanity (f-word, etc) so I would recommend to the older YA.
Zack has been in an accident that has left him in a coma and Paige has cheated on a paper which earns her public service hours. Because of her theatrical background, she is assigned to read to Zack in hopes of stimulating his mind. She is totally grossed out by this and is very superficial when we meet her. Both Zack and Paige have been acting a part to please others, and it is by reading his diary aloud to him that she begins to fall in love with him and becomes challenged to make changes in her own life.
This story was fun to watch unfold and might have made a great full length novel. Of course, because of its brevity the characters and plot were not hashed out and the ending was sweet, predictable and yet abrupt. As a free download, it was certainly entertaining and a great taste of this author's creativity and I would read more from this author.
Would I/Did I buy it? Free Download
Would I read it again? No
Would I recommend it to friends? Yes
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