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A review by lehine
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
3.0
Popsugar 2023: a book published the year your were born (1992).
A brutal retelling of Sleeping Beauty during the Holocaust. Becca is trying to figure out who her grandma was based on her stories and a few contradicting scraps of documentation. Her grandma was obsessed with Sleeping Beauty, but told her own version of it. This is what took me out of the story- how dumb Becca and her family had to be to not recognize what the story was really about. She mentions the evil fairy in black boots with silver Eagles on her hat, and the great mist that put everyone to sleep. Not exactly a mystery, especially since they knew she was a refugee in the 1940’s.
Apparently this was written YA, which could excuse it, but the graphic descriptions of war, death, and sex in the second half seem to refute that. It certainly didn’t write down to children except in the one aspect.
All in all, an important if not a pleasurable read.
A brutal retelling of Sleeping Beauty during the Holocaust. Becca is trying to figure out who her grandma was based on her stories and a few contradicting scraps of documentation. Her grandma was obsessed with Sleeping Beauty, but told her own version of it. This is what took me out of the story- how dumb Becca and her family had to be to not recognize what the story was really about. She mentions the evil fairy in black boots with silver Eagles on her hat, and the great mist that put everyone to sleep. Not exactly a mystery, especially since they knew she was a refugee in the 1940’s.
Apparently this was written YA, which could excuse it, but the graphic descriptions of war, death, and sex in the second half seem to refute that. It certainly didn’t write down to children except in the one aspect.
All in all, an important if not a pleasurable read.