Overview

Enter the century-long dream of sleeping Princess Amelia, a place of whimsy, magic and hidden nightmares . . . the debut fairy-tale YA fantasy by beloved BookTuber Cindy Pham. A century ago, Princess Amelia was cursed into eternal sleep, leaving the kingdom of Gyldan in ruins. Sixteen-year-old thief Corin dismisses the story as a fairy-tale . . . until her sister Elly runs away to find the sleeping princess. Corin follows her sister's trail to a buried, ancient castle and a portal to Amelia's subconscious. Elly has found a paradise of ice castles, sunflower mazes and star-filled oceans, where the sleeping princess's dream alter-ego, Briar Rose, lives in eternal spring - and even the demon who cursed her, Malicine, reigns over a wintry wonderland. When Corin learns about Amelia's past - and the secrets hidden deep in this world of dreams - she must decide whether to stay . . . or return to the waking world, with all its horrors, and fight for a better life.

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'The emotional depth of the characters adds many layers to the search for identity, overcoming grief, and finding belonging; the book shows how hope, love, and redemption can exist in this darkness' * School Library Journal, starred review * 'Intersectionally diverse, emotionally complex characters navigate a hope-fueled, twist-riddled plot in this empathetic exploration of identity, grief, forgiveness, and mental health' * Publishers Weekly * 'Somberly beautiful' * Kirkus Reviews *

Author Information

Cindy Pham is a queer Vietnamese-American author of fantasy books. Based in New York City, she works as a full-time designer while moonlighting as a fiction writer and content creator. Her YouTube channel, Read With Cindy, has amassed over half a million subscribers and focuses on books, movie reactions and candid commentary. The Secret World of Briar Rose is her debut novel.

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