The original fairy tales were darker and scarier than the tidied-up modern versions. Sure, some present-day ones still retain a shock factor, but they are so watered-down and are nothing like the original accounts, which, for the most part, do not end in "happily ever after."This is the a contempora...
I am not surprised that there may be a movie in the "works" for this book. I have met the author on several occasions and have found her a most delightful person. I've been reading and re-reading her stories for my own pleasure and to my children for years.This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty wove...
This book is a reread for me and I'd still rate it 4.5 stars. I really really like this book! It's the first book that has ever made me cry. I enjoyed how the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty was used in the telling of the story. It's a very haunting and dark story that I did not expect when I first pi...
I remember feeling rather stunned when I first read this book. It's a re-imagining of the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty--the German version collected by the Brothers Grimm is known as "Briar Rose." I do love literate adaptations of these sorts of stories which, as the introduction to the book notes,...
This is the story of a grandmother who told a story of Briar Rose. A princess who is revived by a kiss from a prince. Her past is mysterious and when she dies her youngest grandaughter goes to find out more about her. Intercut with the story, Becca, the grandaughter, hunts up the past, finding th...
I have no idea why this is classified as young adult. There is nothing "teenish" about it at all. In fact, the main character is 23! The subject matter is horrific (the Holocaust) and the homosexual part is not appropriate for a young teen. At one pint Becca is watching soft-porn. WTH? And Josef ac...
Rebecca, or Becca, is the youngest of three sisters, and has always been captivated by her grandmother Gemma's unusual version of Briar Rose, or Sleeping Beauty. Even after her older sisters got sick of hearing it, she would ask her grandmother to tell it. So when her grandmother claims to actually ...
If you don't know me, I'm going to tell you straight off that Sleeping Beauty is my favorite Disney movie. So when my friend gave me this book, I was immediately intrigued. Holy shit was that intense. Briar Rose is the tale of Sleeping Beauty, but not the classic 'pricks her finger on a spindle, sle...
When I started this book, I had no clue how the Holocaust could be tied to Sleeping Beauty, and now I want to smack myself for not realizing it before! Jane Yolen certainly knew what she was doing!I really felt this book belonged on the "Adult" shelf. It isn't that it was horribly inappropriate or o...
I find it hard to rate this book because I found it so terribly depressing. I don't want to say I "liked" it, because I didn't, per se. I am not happy that I read it, but I don't think it was a waste of time, either. The way the stories intertwined was interesting and it was well written (I believe)...
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