Becca's grandmother, called Gemma for the way her oldest granddaughter pronounced "grandma", has spent all the years Becca's known her telling the story of Sleeping Beauty, in a beautiful, peculiar, haunting way that Becca loves and rememembers word for word. But when Gemma dies, leaving behind a b...
This book is not at all what I expected, I was expecting a fairy tale retold. Which I got and more, this book is a mix of discovering yourself and finding the truth. Rebecca's grandmother always told her the story of Briar Rose, Sleeping Beauty and on her death bed makes her promise to find her cast...
I was just trying to pick a category for this story and found myself stumped. Yolen has taken the tale of Briar Rose and woven it as Gemma's memory of her situation during the Holocaust. She has told the story to her grandchildren many times over the years. Becca makes a death bed promise to her ...
I love this book! Its the first book that ever made me cry. I love how the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty is used to retell the grandmother's story from the Holocaust to her granddaughters.
This book was a page-turner for me. Although it was a bit unrealistic and the dialogue may have been awkward at times (as noted by other reviewers), I thought that it spun the tale of a horrifying Holocaust experience in a unusual and engaging way. I was able to suspend disbelief and enjoy the flow ...
An installment in Terri Windling's "Fairy Tale Series."This book is not actually a fairy tale or fantasy at all... it deals with a young woman searching for the truth about her grandmother's life. The grandmother had always been loving, but a little bit eccentric, and obsessed with the story of Slee...
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