Cloaked

I love it

It is a good book if you like beastly you will love this one !

5 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

Good book!

This story is a retaling of The Frog Prince with a twist. I really like the whole concept of the story and how Ms. Flinn modernized it. She did a great job of capturing all of the classic story while mixing in some great new drama.

Johnny works lots of hours just to help support him and his mom, but when a princess comes into town with a crazy story asking him for help he is not sure what to do. She throws money at him and the promise of marriage if he helps. Knowing that the money and marriage would help his mother and their situation, he agrees to it, seeking out a prince who has turned into a frog. She gives him magically devices to help him on his journey. But what he finds on this journey is what he least expected.

I love classic tales. So when I received this book I knew I loved it. And loved it I did. Johnny was a hard working man who was desperate for money. Being so young and working so many hours just to help with bills really made me admire him. He didn't like it when his mother worried and was very mature for his age.

The classic tale of the frog prince was a good re-tailing. I enjoyed Johnny;'s adventure in seeking the prince. He ran into all crazy animals that spoke, giants, and bad witches. Accompanying on this journey was his best friend Meg, who wasn't all what she seemed. She too also has secrets up her sleeve and only one that really mattered to Johnny.

The love interest in the book was one I found myself disappointed with. While I was glad that Johnny finally realized who he loved, I was upset at the way that she acted. I felt like she was selfish and shouldn't had thrown it at his face like that. But in the end it all work out, so I was happy with that.

5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

A yummy blend of fairy tales!

Johnny Marco works at his family's shoe repair shop in a fancy Miami hotel. It's tough work, but he has to do it to help his mom pay the bills for their apartment. Then one day famous Alorian princess Victorianna stays at the hotel and asks Johnny to repair her broken shoe. Upon returning it to her, she asks him to help her find her kidnapped brother. Johnny finds it hard to say no to the beautiful princess and agrees to help. But this is no ordinary case, and Johnny gets a lot more adventure than he bargained for! With the help of some magical items and his best friend Meg, Johnny travels all over Florida and back in search of a prince-turned-frog.

If you've never read Alex Flinn, but you love a good fairy tale retelling, start with this book! She has previously written Beastly, a high school version of Beauty and the Beast (and a soon-to-be-movie), and A Kiss In Time, a modernization of Sleeping Beauty. I totally loved those two books and got swept away in this one as well. Cloaked includes many fairy tales, but the big ones are The Frog Prince and The Elves and the Shoemaker. A combo that works out surprisingly well! There was plenty of whimsical magic and non-stop action. Putting the old fairy tales into modern day Miami was fantastic and well thought out. The voices for each of the characters were excellent, their accents sometimes making me laugh. I thought all of the different fairy tales would add up to be too much, but they were small and sweet and added to the adventure as a whole. Flinn ties up all loose ends into a neat little package that left me feeling feeling complete at the end of the book. A fun read!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Several fairy tales rolled into one good story

This author is awesome. Alex Finn also wrote Beastly which turned me into a fan. Well written and engaging, you won't want to put it down!

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Alex Flinn is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LUV ALEX FLINN! She is an amazing author who puts a twist on fairy tales. She makes her books feel like you are there in the story. She makes fairy tales interesting for older teens instead of feeling like a 6 year old. Dont stop writing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

J.

Great book. Defininitly one of the best books i've ever read and believe me i've read a lot of books.

3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

Luv it

This book may be the single best book I have ever read! Mystery, suspence, and aa choice of the loved one keeps the pages turning in this new age thriller!

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

I+freakin+love+Alex+Flinn

I+freakin+love+Alex+Flinn

3 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

This story follows the life of Johnny, a seventeen-year-old wh

This story follows the life of Johnny, a seventeen-year-old who aspires to be a shoe designer, but what he does is help out with his family's business. They repair shoes in South Beach, Florida. It's just him and his mom, and his dad has been missing for years. Unfortunately they have a hard time making ends meet, but with some luck or fate you could say, a princess comes to town that will seem to have the key (or more like money) to make all those problems go away. The princess claims that her brother has been turned into a frog and she thinks Johnny is the right person to find him and bring him back. Johnny ends up in a whirlwind adventure, and gets a lot more out of it than he had expected.
I'm a huge fan of fairy tale re-tellings and though I did enjoy this I have say it was a bit of an overload. The fairy tales used here aren't that commonly known by people (myself included), and it felt too stuffed. Too many events happening and too many storylines for one story. I felt like we were jumping from crisis to crisis ALL the time. But then again that was probably what the author was trying to achieve; the feeling that our character was almost literally flying by the seat of his pants. All that aside, I did appreciate the magical elements, and how they were put together in the storyline. I could see the "twists" coming most of the time, but fairytales are often that way. Meghan, who is Johnny's best friend, is a great character and I loved the relationship between them.
What made this story good, even though I felt hurried, was Johnny. He tries hard to help his mom, and he has a vision of how things should be. But at the same time he has his faults. He's convinced the money will fix everything and he'll do almost anything so he and his mom can have a better life. How can you not like a character like that? But overall I did enjoy reading this novel. I’d give this a 4/5 star rating though.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Ok

This book was good but not alex flinns greatest

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Fantasy fiction

I am a super reading fanatic. Believe me, when they say twelve and up, it doesnt matter. Same with Twilight and Hunger Games. Im reading them at age ten

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

it was eh....

i read this book because of kiss in time and beastly. i have to say that it was a bit dissapointing. predictable and hard to follow

1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

I didnot like this book vary much

I didnot like booj vary moch

the book was good book !

the book was good book !

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Awesome

This book is the best ever ... it has good plot abd awesome characters

This book was the perfect mending of an old fairy tale that we h

This book was the perfect mending of an old fairy tale that we have all forgotten about as we grow older.... into a wonderful, witty tale about a dorky teenage boy who finds his true love. I give it two thumbs up!

Awesome.

That's a very smart princess right there. She could be an actress if she wanted to.... and if she were real. I wouldn't have to the extreme of "If you bring my bruzzer I'll marry you.", but that was her call. I would be so ticked if I found out my friend was a witch and she didn't tell me. Then I'd be ok in like, 2 hours. After she bought me a waffle cone. I <3 WAFFLE CONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! •TS•

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This book kept me wanting to read more!!!!! :)