Undercaffeinated and Overexposed
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Around two hundred years after her discovery by the Brothers Grimm, Sleeping Beauty has lost her happily ever after. Mortal authors can enslave fairy tale folk as muses with the flash of a camera, and Beauty has long since left her enchanted castle for the anonymity of city life in modern Washington, D.C. Worse, her relationship with Prince Charming is on the rocks; her crush on her best friend Lancelot is going nowhere; and her boss, Titania, is about to fire her from the Tale’s End Bookstore and Café, where she lives and works as a barista. As if that weren't enough, alone among the immortal fairy folk, Beauty is changing. She’s not sure how, or why, but she isn't the same person who walked out of the Dark Forest and it terrifies her. If she’s no longer a princess – if her life is no longer a fairy tale – will there be a home for her with the fairy folk when the last words are written?
Customer Reviews
Storybook folk trying to write their own tales
Undercaffeinated and Overexposed is a story about storybook characters living in modern-day D.C. trying to break out of their old habits & narratives, all while running a coffeeshop/bookstore, and fighting the machinations of Baba Yaga and Morgana le Fey. It's lively, tightly-written, and feels original for all that it's hardly the only "modern day fairy tale" out there-- full of humor, action, and genuine feeling & growth
What a Beaut
Undercaffeinated and Overexposed is a story about storybook characters living in modern-day D.C. trying to break out of their old habits & narratives, all while running a coffeeshop/bookstore, and fighting the machinations of Baba Yaga and Morgana le Fey. It's lively, tightly-written, and feels original for all that it's hardly the only "modern day fairy tale" out there-- full of humor, action, and genuine feeling & growth.