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A review by prisoner24601
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen, Terri Windling
3.0
I picked this book up for the road trip thinking "Escape this tin can on the road with mystical animals and sleeping beauty and fairy tales."
NO.
Instead I felt:
and after reading I was like:
Don't get me wrong. It wasn't that the book was horrible or excruciatingly boring; it's just that when you open a book prepared for happiness and sunshine and all you get is death... death and even more death it kind of dampens your mood.
When I learnt about the holocaust in history class I sad but then I only absorbed all the facts in order to pass your tests, however, when I read about it in during recreational time and I reading it from another person's perspective it makes me AWFULLY miserable. All those lives lost because of a guy with a mustache.
I wouldn't call this book a retelling but it is kind of related to Sleeping Beauty in a metaphoric way. Briar rose's plot is not riveting but it does have some special quality to it.
NO.
Instead I felt:
and after reading I was like:
Don't get me wrong. It wasn't that the book was horrible or excruciatingly boring; it's just that when you open a book prepared for happiness and sunshine and all you get is death... death and even more death it kind of dampens your mood.
When I learnt about the holocaust in history class I sad but then I only absorbed all the facts in order to pass your tests, however, when I read about it in during recreational time and I reading it from another person's perspective it makes me AWFULLY miserable. All those lives lost because of a guy with a mustache.
I wouldn't call this book a retelling but it is kind of related to Sleeping Beauty in a metaphoric way. Briar rose's plot is not riveting but it does have some special quality to it.