4.5 stars

Everything looked good on the cryo deck.

Are you looking for a quick read that just happens to be a sci-fi, F/F enemies-to-lovers retelling of Sleeping Beauty? Do I have a book for you! Also, it has a beautiful cover.

I just want to say that I absolutely LOVED the little ways the original story's images were translated into sci-fi - references to the ship's shape, the Reaches ship's name, the thorns in Mal's dream, etc.

I would have liked this story to be longer, but I think there was as much character and relationship development as you can fit into 50 pages - and the main characters did spend several months together, I just wished we had SEEN a little more of it.

The irony/table-turning of the ending was also great.

Also, one of the Popsugar prompts made me think, but - I do think this concept could make an awesome movie. Movies like retellings anyway, and this one is queer, sci-fi, and the images I mentioned above would be so good.

note: The main POV character, Mal walks with a cane and a limp.