A review by carolineinthelibrary
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

3.0

I initially read this book for a summer reading project in high school and I remembered enjoying it. It’s still a great story, and a unique perspective on the Holocaust, but reading it again I realized finding out Gemma’s story is sort of rushed. We spend so much time with Rebecca as she plans to find out more about her grandmother’s life, and then it just tumbled out as a retelling sort of monologue toward the end of the book. I would have loved a little more from the ending and from finding out who Gemma was.