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A review by _readwithash
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
3.0
I read this while on a journey though the Nebula shortlist winners, and it was the first book I intentionally read because of that challenge I set for myself.
This was certainly not what I expected from SFF award winners. This was a holocaust story, of a woman trying to find her grandmother's history under the Nazi regime. Interlaced though that story is her grandmother's story of Briar Rose, with just enough changes from the more familiar tale to realize that there might be more to her story than just a simple fairytale.
Overall, I found this book to be enjoyable enough to read, despite the obviously very harrowing content, but it didn't move me. Ultimately it was a fairly direct story with nothing surprising or particularly interesting.
Still, I'm happy to have read it, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a story about the Holocaust that is a bit different than most of the others I've read.
This was certainly not what I expected from SFF award winners. This was a holocaust story, of a woman trying to find her grandmother's history under the Nazi regime. Interlaced though that story is her grandmother's story of Briar Rose, with just enough changes from the more familiar tale to realize that there might be more to her story than just a simple fairytale.
Overall, I found this book to be enjoyable enough to read, despite the obviously very harrowing content, but it didn't move me. Ultimately it was a fairly direct story with nothing surprising or particularly interesting.
Still, I'm happy to have read it, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a story about the Holocaust that is a bit different than most of the others I've read.