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Two modern teens.
One classic fairy tale.
Absolutely no cell service.

Stella Griffin doesn’t believe in fairy tales. Ever since her boyfriend dumped her three weeks before the prom—not ideal timing—she’s convinced every love story is a lie.

She’s ready to skip the prom entirely. But she and her best friend, Nisha, have been planning for years to celebrate at Disneyland before the prom . . . an OG OC tradition. But even being all dressed up at the Happiest Place on Earth isn’t salvaging Stella’s night. Nisha has brought along her friend Reece to join them, and he and Stella do not get along. They’re like oil and water. Cats and dogs. Aladdin and Jafar. And so what if Reece is, fine, kind of cute? Stella’s over it all. Happily-ever-afters, true love’s kisses, princes on white horses. It’s not real.

. . . Or is it?

Because when Stella and Reece push through a hidden door in Sleeping Beauty’s castle, they’re not in Anaheim anymore. They’re in the story. In Sleeping Beauty—with Aurora and Phillip, the fairies, Maleficent, and extremely intelligent woodland creatures.

Unfortunately, they’ve landed right in the middle of the story—which throws things off. Suddenly, Aurora and Phillip are meeting before they were supposed to. The fairies are suspicious of the interlopers, and even Maleficent gets word of their arrival.

Stella and Reece will have to put aside their differences, make sure Aurora and Phillip fall in love, and get the story back on track—because if things don’t end the way they’re supposed to . . . they might never get home.

Will they be able to pull off a fairy-tale ending? And will Stella and Reece get a happily-ever-after of their own?

Short and Sweet Review

It’s time for prom and unfortunately Stella just got dumped. Prom is being held at Disney and who doesn’t want to be at Disney for prom, Stella goes with her friends and Reece a new kid who happened to be there when Stella was dumped. Stella claims to know all things about Disney but when her and Reece are transported into the story of Sleeping Beauty it turns out she’s clueless and Reece ends up being the expert on the story. Stella and Reece need to help get the story back on track but also find a way to get back home.

Promchanted goes down as one of my least favorite retellings. Stella is an insufferable character, she comes across as a know it all and it’s blatantly obvious she doesn’t. I haven’t watched Sleeping Beauty but I know the synopsis. When Stella and Reece are dropped into the story they’re about a week away from Aurora’s 16th birthday. They befriend Aurora and the prince but Reece is adamant that he and Stella shouldn’t meddle and let the story play out. This book was slow and I found it boring, besides the fact that these two are now in the story things play out as they would in the movie. Stella slowly starts to fall for Reece and I thought this was predictable and I saw it coming from the moment he was apart of her prom group. Reece made a decision at the end of the book and it just seemed out of character for him and it ended up taking my original 3 star rating down to a 2.

Overall, I feel like Matson’s books are hit or miss with me and I didn’t enjoy this book. I thought it would be fun seeing these two in a Disney movie but these characters are hard to connect to and Stella needed a lot of growth. I think having Reece’s POV would have been great. The premise of this book sounded great but the execution was bad.