Briar Rose Jane Yolsen produces a powerful and moving novel that deftly blends the legend of Sleeping Beauty with the historical tragedy of the Holocaust. To Rebecca, Sylvia and Shana, "Briar Rose" was simply a bed time story but in all reality the story they grew up with was an actual event in Gemma’s life. Although Gemma always identified strongly with Briar Rose, the sleeping princess, no one had thought it anything but a …showed first 75 words of 511 total…

…showed last 75 words of 511 total…Although it was a heart-breaking book I would highly recommend this book to everyone. It’s amazing how the author blended a tale and a horrible story together. It somehow made the story less dreadful than it really is. This book should be read and reread because the more you read it the more you come to understand the appalling events of the Holocaust. "Briar Rose will surely give the reader a tale to remember.