The Sleeping Beauty
core novel 2010 Five Hundred Kingdoms
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (7,736 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 352 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780373803156 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
The Sleeping Beauty, the fifth novel in the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, follows Princess Rosamund of Eltaria, whose life becomes caught between two overlapping fairy-tale patterns, the Sleeping Beauty story and the Snow White story, as the magical force known as the Tradition works to push her life toward one or the other. After her father's death leaves the kingdom vulnerable, her Fairy Godmother, Lily, arranges a series of trials in which a hundred princes compete for Rosa's hand in marriage, hoping the resulting alliance will protect Eltaria from outside threats. As the competition unfolds, Rosa finds herself drawn to one particular suitor even as magical forces continue working against her, complicating both the contest and her own sense of what she actually wants.
Where it sits
- Universe: Five Hundred Kingdoms
- Series: Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms core; position 5 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mercedes Lackey
Notes
- From the series record (Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms): A completed 7-book sequence of standalone fairy-tale-retelling novels sharing one meta-fictional secondary world ("The Tradition", a narrative-causality force that pushes real lives toward familiar fairy-tale shapes), published 2004-2012 by Luna/Harlequin.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms: position 5 of 7: previous The Snow Queen (2008) · next Beauty and the Werewolf (2011)
Sources
- Rating-platform listing: Five Hundred Kingdoms series
- Reference listing: A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_(novel)
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