The book addresses serious issues including what makes a 'person,' in addition to classic YA subjects such as first love, making it a wonderful title for a book talk, a reading list, or a class discussion. Publishers Weekly This is a fun, fast read.It is a fairy tale without a classic happy ending. A LONG, LONG, SLEEP is my absolute favorite kind of book!' - Jaclyn Dolamore - Quote, With well-developed characters, a touch of romance, and a believable future that, for once, is not entirely dystopian, Sheehan's tale should please many readers. 'Beautiful and bittersweet, romantic and riveting, with characters I didn't want to leave behind when I reached the end. But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence, Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes - or be left without any future at all.

Desperate to put the past behind her and adapt to her new world, Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake, hoping that he can help her to start fresh. Now, her parents and her first love are long gone, and Rose - hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire - is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew. Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss. But this time Rose wakes up to find her past is long gone - and her future full of peril.

It should have been a short suspended-animation sleep.

A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan