if you're young at heart. Good song. Great song even.And I thought that Cloaked was yet another great book from one of my favorite authors, Alex Flinn. I've sung her praises before here. I was disappointed that Beastly the movie didn't get better reviews and/or a better response at the box office, because, while I didn't see the movie, I thought the book was excellent and I was hoping it would spark a great interest in Flinn's novels. Notice I said better reviews AND/OR a better response at the box office, because the two are not mutually exclusive! I just hope more folks will read Flinn's books. She is a truly gifted and fresh writer. Cloaked takes a bunch of fairy tales, from The Elves and the Shoemaker to The Salad (which I had never heard of) and turns them into the story of Johnny, who works in a posh South Beach hotel, fixing shoes for the hotel's wealthy guests. Johnny meets a princess and is suddenly off on a quest that takes him to the Florida Keys and all around the world. My buddy Karen is vacationing in Florida now and as I was reading this book I was asking her about the wildlife mentioned in the book. It was a fun bonus!
This book is a lot of fun and I can't wait to read more from Flinn, as usual.
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