Cloaked

OHMYGOD! Alex Flinn is a girl, I mean a woman! All this time, I thought she was a guy. Like a man-man. Like Rick Riordan who retells(is this even a verb?) Greek, Roman and Egyptian mythology. This would totally change my perspective in reading his---I mean her books. I am so regretting that OHMYGOD.......more

"All the good quotes have shoes." Johnny is just a normal guy who works at his family's shoe repair shop in South Beach, Florida. Then one day, a princess from Aloria shows up and asks him to help her find her brother who's been turned into a frog by a nasty witch. She calls him a "good boy," gives h......more

Cloaked is an enjoyable, fun, and adventurous book. Alex Flinn is well known to write Fairy Tale Retellings and I've only read Beastly, which I really like. In this book, it's a mash-up fairy tales and most of them are unfamiliar to me (I only knew The Frog Prince). The first half of this book is ind......more

Schönes Retelling, unterhaltsam und die Märchen-Vibes sind da. Johnny ist 17, arbeitet beim Schuster und träumt davon reich und berühmt zu werden, als Schuhdesigner. Prinzessin Victoriana scheint seine perfekte Möglichkeit. Und die will nicht nur seine Schuhe tragen, sondern ihn gleich heiraten. Daf......more

Nachdem ich schon das erste Buch von Alex Flinn Beastly gelesen hatte, landete auch Kissed auf meinem SuB. Und auch wenn ich das Print Buch besitze, habe ich mich nun für das Hören entschieden. Was durch den famosen Hörbuchsprecher Simon Jäger eine super Entscheidung war. Die Geschichte hat mir grun......more