Briar Rose
Briar Rose believes in fairy tales ...And now, because of a family curse, she's living one. Doomed to fall asleep for one hundred years on her sixteenth birthday, Briar has woken up in the darkest, most twisted fairy tale she could ever have dreamed of -- miles away from the safe, boring...
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Briar Rose believes in fairy tales ...And now, because of a family curse, she's living one. Doomed to fall asleep for one hundred years on her sixteenth birthday, Briar has woken up in the darkest, most twisted fairy tale she could ever have dreamed of -- miles away from the safe, boring small-town life that she has left behind. Briar must fight her way out of the story, but she can't do it alone. She always believed in handsome princes, and now she's met one her only chance is to put her life in his hands, or there will be no happy ever after and no waking up ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781447241096 (1447241096)
ASIN: 1447241096
Publish date: 2013-09-12
Publisher: MacMillan Children's Books
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
I love, love, love this author! I think she did a fantastic job in bringing a whole new twist to a classic tale. Plot: This is about a girl who is cursed to sleep when a spell goes horribly wrong. Briar must fight this spell not only on her body but in her mind. I think that the way this story mov...
I requested a review copy of Briar Rose because it sounded really awesome. I love fairytale retellings, and Briar Rose had all the makings of one that I could really fall in love with. Unfortunately, I didn’t fall in love with it. I’m not really sure what it is about Briar Rose that didn’t reach o...
It is a bad, bad thing when the best thing I can say about a book is that it started off feeling somewhat reminiscent of Beautiful Creatures. It's somewhat like licking a Tootsie Pop. It's not exactly good in the first place, but then you get to the center...thing, and instead of a crappy mockolate ...
I received this book as a first reads copy via GoodReads and My Kinda Book.I'll start by saying I love the cover of this book. Then: I'm a big Jana Oliver fan, having loved her Demon Trappers series so when I saw the First Reads giveaway on Goodreads for this I just had to enter and luckily for me, ...