Sleeping Helena, by Erzebet YellowBoy
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Sleeping Helena, by Erzebet YellowBoy
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Orphaned at birth, Helena receives eight gifts from eight extraordinary aunts. Her gifts make her beautiful, intelligent, talented—as well as headstrong, temperamental, and bound to fulfill a destiny that involves death. Like Sleeping Beauty, Helena receives a final gift on the day of her sixteenth birthday...and, as a consequence, all in her domain are bespelled by sleep. A broken mirror becomes a portal to a dark day in a distant past that shattered the lives of her family and altered the future of an entire kingdom.While the fate of the nation has been decided and cannot be undone, the fate of the family rests on a kiss, a fairy tale king, and what Helena will do when—and if—she wakes.
Sleeping Helena, by Erzebet YellowBoy- Amazon Sales Rank: #1960373 in eBooks
- Published on: 2010-12-20
- Released on: 2010-12-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly YellowBoy's first novel under her own name (after 2007's pseudonymous The Bone Whistle) is a darkly poetic retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. When Helena's mother dies in childbirth, her eight "grandaunts" take the baby in and bestow upon her magical gifts like intelligence, grace, and beauty. When the eldest crone, Kitty, gives a gift in the form of a riddle, the other sisters vow to protect the innocent girl against their sister's perceived curse. As Helena grows into a young woman, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the riddle as well as the murky and sometimes tragic events of the sisters' childhoods. On Helena's 16th birthday, she receives Kitty's gift and finally understands the significance of her life—and death. This dreamlike story lags at points but will linger in the reader's subconscious long after the last page is turned. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. An evocative, awakening "sleep" By Patricia J. Esposito What happens when we're given too many gifts: beauty, wit, music, dance? What's sacrificed in the making of the whole? When Helena is gifted by her aunts with all the traits to make an attractive and successful woman, there's little room for personal growth, for things like compassion, appreciation, and love. But one aunt's gift is a riddle--a riddle that hints of death, the other aunts think, that hints of life, Helena believes. Sleeping Helena follows this Beauty on her quest for an answer to the last gift, entangling her in Aunt Kitty's own purpose in the riddled gift, a need to return to the past to change it.But can we change the past? Or do we relive it to learn and to change ourselves in the process? Halfway through Sleeping Helena, I paused to ask, "How, how, did the author come up with this retelling?" This is no simple wicked aunt; there is no fairy-tale prince with a healing kiss. Kitty is tortured with the loss in her past, spending her life trying to return to fix it. Helena is fixed on her quest, falling in love too with someone each would give her life to save. And I could never anticipate what would happen next as the mystery twisted and unfolded.Erzebet Yellowboy's prose is impeccable--clean and unaffected yet poetic, with lasting images and mesmerizing repetitions, as the past and present blend and repeat. Early in the novel, she describes Helena peaking into their kitchen on a snowy night, startled to find King Ludwig II at their table. "Snow had melted from their cloaks and slid down their boots, creating little lakes of fresh water on the stone floor at their feet." A single image that lasted in Aunt Kitty's mind, that becomes indelible in the reader's mind.And when the image later returns, it strikes powerfully, with that deep knowing without explanation, of sensing Kitty, in that place, in that time, and in memory, and mingled in it the history of a king and the love of a brother. As the novel moves on, memories repeat, giving the feeling of something piling up near breaking, as if memory can break open, like the mirrors in the house, removed to keep the past at bay or to protect the future, like the single mirror that Helena discovers.Sleeping Helena is a beautiful, imaginative, evocative retelling of a legend I always loved but which has now been transformed and deepened, coming closer to life though set in the place of memory and dreaming.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Clever Reworking of a Timeless Tale By Jeffrey P. Bampos "Sleeping Helena" is a new take on the classic Sleeping Beauty tale. YellowBoy knows her fairy tales well, and is active in writing and editing a magazine of new fairy stories. Here, the Beauty is not so likeable as the traditional princess Briar Rose. The gifts that her aunts have bestowed upon Helena make her accomplished, beautiful, but cold. The story really focuses on personal loss and family, and deals with twists in time. The magical old aunts are memorable and the story even features an appearance by "Mad" King Ludwig of castle-building fame. "Sleeping Helena" will leave the reader amused, thoughtful and surprised.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A radical departure from a familiar tale. By pyewackett In Erzebet Yellowboy's "Sleeping Helena" we find a radical departure from the familiar Grimm's fairytale.Helena is indeed a beauty, but a beauty magically bestowed. Adopted into a household of maiden "aunts" after her mother dies in childbirth, she is gifted by her magical aunts with virtues to heighten her potentials in various ways. This ceremony reveals a tension and dark past in the family when an uninvited aunt makes a surprise appearance and bestows a cryptic gift that is interpreted as a curse.The aunts are ancient women, as their family was once gifted with extreme longevity. They had immigrated to America after a tragedy in 19th Century Bayern (a fairytale version of Bavaria), leaving behind the eighth and eldest sister, whose obsession to undo the past alienated her from the rest.Events lead the family back to their ancestral home in Bayern, a noble estate just across the lake from one of "mad" King Ludwig II's numerous castles. Their destinies are/were tied closely to his, and the story takes place in two eras.Helena's gifts play a pivotal role in the unfolding of events, but neither she, nor her aunts (except one, perhaps) really knows where they will lead her. A pathologically over-protective aunt is keeping her from fully blooming though, and Helena's lack of fulfillment is making her a bit of a terror, especially to her aunts and tutors. Only the nursemaid Hope seems immune to Helena's charms.The familiar motifs of the older version of the tale are included, with ballrooms, walls of thorny climbing roses, and a kiss that awakens. But they are arranged in a way that defies your predictions, and each plays a role in the story's twists that negates their function as cliches.We know this is no ordinary fairytale, but a modern novel, as it doesn't commence "once upon a time" but leaps right into the drama of a family in the 20th Century. Even aside from their magic, these are a people "between two worlds" as first generation immigrants to America, ever looking back at events in the old country.The writing style is clear, the pacing well handled, and the events at the climax truly unpredictable.
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