Cloaked is an enjoyable, fun, and adventurous book. Watch the book trailer for alex flinns next teen novel, cloaked, and then read the bookon sale now. Written by alex flinn, audiobook narrated by cendese cendese. Alexandra flinn born october 23, 1966 is an american writer of novels for young adults. Download and read online for free cloaked by alex flinn. Alex flinn seems to be somewhat known throughout ya for this. When youve found out that the person you love loves you, you cant delay.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Just a poor guy working an afterschool job at a south beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. Cloaked has 10 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. In her author note, alex talks about using lesser known fairy tales in this novel as her main purpose for writing this book and she succeeds in this mission. I like a little bit of fantasy, like alex flinns other books beastly and a kiss in time. Johnny runs his familys shoe repair shop in a fancy hotel. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Just a poor guy working an afterschool job at a south beach shore repair shop to. Create an account and send a request for reading to other users on the webpage of. Im thinking ill need to rectify that and read the reast of her. Alex flinn is a renowned american writer of science fiction, romance, fantasy, and young adult novels. In this case the young man is johnny, a cobbler who dreams of making enough money so that him and his mother dont have to constantly worry about loosing the family business. Romance fiction theme setting s johnny main character princess victorianna meg johnnys best friend ryan johnnys other best friend prince phillip gets turned into a frog the. Cloaked by alex flinn bookyurt curl up with a good book.
In the book, breaking point by alex flinn, paul is picked on at school. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Cloaked was wonderful, and definitely a novel ill remember for a long time. Alex flinn was born in a small town on long island, new york. Just a poor guy working an afterschool job at a south beach shoe repair shop to help his mom. Readers looking for a repeat of beastlys dreamy, breathless romance will find cloaked to be a different animal, less a romance and more an adventure story, though there is still a cute couple to root for, andcloaked employs the same style of clever internal commentary we found in beastly. She is popular for writing the breathing underwater series, the kendra chronicles series, and several independent books. To me i thought the cover of cloaked and the cover of beastly were pretty dang similar so when i saw this book on kindle i was expecting something close, or even a continuation of beastly.
Friend, i am not as well read as i think i am, because i had never read one of flinns retellings, only her. Cloaked was my first encounter with alex flinn, the author behind the fairy tale retelling beastly. I cant wait to read more and branch out into the other books written by alex flinn. The book is an easy read with short chapters, and i did enjoy the shoe quotes that johnny and meg collected and quoted to each other. What is the theme of cloaked by alex flinn answers. Like beastly, cloaked takes a young man in modern times and throws him into the world of fairy tales. The story kinda runs along the lines of the elves and the shoemaker fable. Cloaked by alex flinn what happens when you take a bunch of fairy tales, mix them up and put them together into a modern day setting. Her books have appeared on the new york times and usa today bestseller lists and have been translated into over twenty foreign languages. What i like about cloaked was that it wasnt just one fairy tale book used in this story so dont think it is about little red riding hood because it isnt. I was disappointed by cloaked a lot because a lot of people loved flinns earlier work and swore up and down by her. Alex also wrote a kiss in time, a modern retelling of sleeping beauty. Cloaked is a percy jackson style romp, a mashup of southern florida and several classic fairy tales. This story is about talking animals and magic, between talking to swans, foxes and rats to being chased by giants.
To date, she has written twelve books and one original e book, that have been published with another due in 2017. Cloaked by alex flinn in doc, fb3, rtf download ebook. Cloaked by alex flinn at the best online ebook storage. Friend, i am not as well read as i think i am, because i had never read one of flinns retellings, only her contemporary work, until cloaked. Before he knew it, he was spying with a flock of enchanted swans, talking to a fox, and nearly trampled by giants in the everglades. The good thing, is that it was written well, so it wasnt hard to follow. Cloaked book by alex flinn half price books marketplace. Its as great as the other two twisted fairy tales by the same author, beastly and a kiss in time. Flinns characters are absolutely believable, but, at the same time, they will start to question if this world is ready for magic and, if so, how do we, as mere mortals, survive. Get this book free when you sign up for a 30day trial. And one hotlooking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission. Beastly is now a major motion picture starring vanessa hudgens. Cloaked alex flinn for my daughter, meredith special thanks to toni markiet, jayne carapezzi, joyce sweeney, dorian cirrone, and george nicholson few people know how to take a walk. In this book, its a mashup fairy tales and most of them are unfamiliar to me i only knew the frog prince.
While im not sure shes really the author for me specifically, i have a ton of fun reading her retellings and diving into the worlds she goes to such great lengths to cultivate and create. Not the writing, not the dropped storylines, not the obvious plot twists or the boringness or the narrators voice. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read cloaked. The author of beastly, alex flinn, does what she does best. When alex flinn does it, it is enchanting, delightful, incredibly funny, romatic and magical.