A review by bobkat
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

3.0

I was actually pretty underwhelmed for a while with this story of a girl searching for the reason behind her grandmother's obsession with her own version of the Briar Rose fairy tale. This involves piecing together her grandmother's Holocaust story. The novel is really slow at first, and somehow cheesy, and the dialogue is crappy so everything seems forced. However, a new character toward the end suddenly brings in his own really powerful (and juicy) story and explains the grandmother's, and the whole thing ties together very well.