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A review by nic_oly_oly
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
4.0
Even thought this book is in fact fiction, it has real events and it's got a fairy tale twist.
"The bright tale of Sleeping Beauty, the dark tale of The Holocaust - twined together in a story you will never forget" (so it says on the book).
It's pretty much left me speechless, in a good way. I'm more trying to piece together Gemma's version of "Sleeping Beauty" that she told Sylvia, Shana and Becca (Becca being the only one to really believe her in the end) with the story you eventually find out.
It was a great book, fiction or not. It felt like it could be real...I mean with all the real places and talks of real camps and the nazis. This story just happened to surround the camp Chelmno or as some people called it, mostly germans..i believe, Kumlhof. It was a camp of extremination.
In the end it is Becca who finds all this out because she promised Gemma. Promised Gemma that she would find out. Gemma left a box of clues - old photographs, papers, newspaper clippings.
Read for yourself to find out the story.
"The bright tale of Sleeping Beauty, the dark tale of The Holocaust - twined together in a story you will never forget" (so it says on the book).
It's pretty much left me speechless, in a good way. I'm more trying to piece together Gemma's version of "Sleeping Beauty" that she told Sylvia, Shana and Becca (Becca being the only one to really believe her in the end) with the story you eventually find out.
It was a great book, fiction or not. It felt like it could be real...I mean with all the real places and talks of real camps and the nazis. This story just happened to surround the camp Chelmno or as some people called it, mostly germans..i believe, Kumlhof. It was a camp of extremination.
In the end it is Becca who finds all this out because she promised Gemma. Promised Gemma that she would find out. Gemma left a box of clues - old photographs, papers, newspaper clippings.
Read for yourself to find out the story.