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On the whole, I really enjoyed Briar Rose. While I found the first part of the book charming, it was also awkward at times. It seemed like Yolen was trying a bit too hard to be "hip" for the YA crowd. My favorite lines detailed when the main character flipped through her 36 cable channels and only found soft-core movies to watch, one of which she'd already seen. Um... what?? Anywho, I thought the second half of the book was amazing. Not to give too much away, but reading about how groups of peop
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Not very interesting. Did not like the comparisons of the fairy tale with her grandmother's real life. To fulfill her promise to her dying grandmother, she can just put her life o hold and take off for Poland. Not very believable to me. A lot of names hard to keep track of also.
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A really good real-world fairy tale, much better the second time through. I really enjoyed it.
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Jul 25, 2014
Afriendlylibrarian
marked it as to-read
Jan 13, 2016
Jayna
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Feb 11, 2016
Robbi C
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