Briar Rose
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Briar Rose
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Product NameBriar Rose
ManufacturerTor Books
Product Number MPN0812558626
Retail Price $6.99
EAN-1409780812558623
UPC978081255862
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TitleBriar Rose
ISBN0812558626
Author(s)Jane Yolen
Release Date1993-11-15
FormatMass Market Paperback
Num. of Items1
Weight0.5 lbs.
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2 Star Rating  "Pass on this one"2009-08-24
- Reviewed By harmonicaexbrit
The story is interesting in concept but very watered down to what it could have been. The plot is forced, character development is not only incomplete, but I found the characters dull, flat and one-dimensional. This book had great potential but for me I couldn't finish it. There are many more books worth my time than this one.
 
5 Star Rating  "A story to remember"2009-08-04
- Reviewed By User: AA91OY4974MAA
I won't go into a summary of this book, you can find that in the section above, and in many other reviews. What I'll say here is this:

I read this book when I was 12. It moved me deeply, possibly more deeply than anything I'd ever read before. It wasn't that the story was about the Holocaust, I'd already read "Night" and several other WWII books by then, so terrible as that was, it wasn't what really made me cry.

It was the fairy tale her grandmother told, amidst the horror and the pain, the death and the struggle. That kiss, that hope, that life. How the granddaughter searches for those links to her grandmother's, and by extension her own, past.

"Briar Rose" grabbed hold of me, and didn't let go. I can clearly remember finishing the book in my closet in the middle of the night with a shirt pressed against the door crack so no light would give me away to my parents.

If you're looking at this review wondering whether or not to get this book - do it. Let it grab hold of you. More than likely you will not regret your purchase.
 
5 Star Rating  "Hidden Face"2009-04-28
- Reviewed By User: AEFXKWJXXONZR
Briar Rose by Yolen is one of my favorite books. I have always had a morbid fascination with the Holocaust and this book definitely adds the right amount of it. This was my first book by Yolen and I bounded with Gemma and Rebecca and the bound between them touched me. Yolen twined the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale in with the novel giving the whole story a magical feel but the Holocaust brings us back to reality. On a side note, I never noticed the face behind the barbs until weeks after I read the story and saw the book across the room.
 
4 Star Rating  "an alternate holocaust story"2009-04-11
- Reviewed By sc_brit
This book is great a great alternative to other holocaust accounts. However, my male students did not like the fairy tale aspect of the book. Some of my younger, and more conservative students, objected to the homosexual references.
 
3 Star Rating  "Interesting Premise, But Not Quite The Fairy Tale As Promised..."2009-01-20
- Reviewed By User: A1D5RCOILPC9LX
I didn't exactly mean to read this in one sitting, but that is just what happened! This book is loosely based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, but is set in Poland during WWII. The history is tragic and the writing is pretty solid, but there is a definite loss of magic that should be at the heart of every fairy tale - retold or not. Still, I did enjoy it.
 
3 Star Rating  "a Mom's opinion"2009-01-08
- Reviewed By User: AZS6I7UFQN5WF
"They made love during Hitler's victory speech, a horrible, angry, passionate thrusting, that left Josef bruised and somewhat stunned. He had planned to have a long talk with his lover about being more gentle the next morning. But when he woke, he found the man dead in the marble bath, his wrists still bleeding soft red lines into the tub."

This passage is taken directly from the book. While the passage is certainly out of context, I found it disturbing that my 11 year old checked this book out of her school library. Today's children are exposed to so much more than I was when I was growing up, and not all of it is age appropriate. I've not read the whole book, so it may be a good story, but be aware of passages such as this that are too mature for many children.
 
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