Briar Rose
by Jane Yolen
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Author: Jane YolenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-15
ISBN: 0765342308
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Tor Teen
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- ISBN13: 9780765342300
- Condition: New
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Summary: 4 Stars
The book Briar Rose by Jane Yolan is excellent reading. I recommend it to all readers, and for those who cannot read, I suggest they have someone read it to them. The book keeps the readers' interest as it transfers from fairy tale to the reality of the present day. I was surprised of how well the author intertwines the great fairy tale of "Sleeping Beauty" and the Holocaust into a great book. I gained a great love for the book because of this flow from reality to fairy tale and back to reality. I was very intrigued by the main character, Becca. Becca loves her grandmother very much, and would do anything that her grandmother asked of her. I find that a noble trait. The book begins with the fairy tale being told by her grandmother. Becca is fascinated to have it retold to her time and again as a child. Gemma, the grandmother, believes she herself is the princess from the fairy tale. After her grandmother dies, Becca is determined to learn the truth about her grandmother and the connection to the princess from the fairy tale. Becca's passions leads her to Poland where she meets Josef Potocki. As Josef Potocki tells Becca the tragic story of his past and her grandmother's past, I became glued to the pages. As Josef goes on about the concentration camps and prisons that he and Gemma were in, the heartbreaking words pop out of the pages at me. The pain that Josef feels as he tells Becca about the suffering that he and her grandmother went through; I felt that same pain and suffering as I read. The ending is not happily ever after as I expected it to be. Becca did find out the truth about her grandmother, but she also had to learn the horror that her grandmother went through. Becca had to hear about the near death experiences and the anguish that her grandmother had seen and felt in Poland. Briar Rose is a capitvating book that ties the great fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty" and the horror of the Holocaust. All over sixteen years of age should read it or have it read to them.
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