Rose & Thorn

Book 55 of my 2017 Reading Challenge
read from August 17 - September 2

Rose & Thorn by Sarah Prineas
Book 2 in the Ash & Bramble series

Summary (via Goodreads)
This beauty isn’t sleeping! Discover the true story of Sleeping Beauty in Sarah Prineas’s bold YA fairy-tale retelling filled with thrilling adventure and romance, perfect for fans of The Lunar Chronicles and The Girl of Fire & Thorns trilogy.
After the spell protecting her is destroyed, Rose seeks safety in the world outside the valley she had called home. She’s been kept hidden all her life to delay the three curses she was born with—curses that will put her into her own fairy tale and a century-long slumber. Accompanied by the handsome and mysterious Watcher, Griff, and his witty and warmhearted partner, Quirk, Rose tries to escape from the ties that bind her to her story. But will the path they take lead them to freedom, or will it bring them straight into the fairy tale they are trying to avoid?
Set in the world of Sarah Prineas’s Ash & Bramble fifty years later, Rose & Thorn is a powerful retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale where the characters fight to find their own Happy Ever After.

My Opinion
I would recommend reading Ash & Bramble first to get everything out of this book.  

It seemed like a lot of setup to get to the travel but once they start traveling together it picked up.  There was also a very natural way of how they all ended up traveling together so  although there were some coincidences needed to move the story along, overall it was a good read.

A Few Quotes from the Book
"Story will have its ending.
 And this is how it begins:
 Once there was a girl who lived in a forest cottage.
 Upon her wrist she bore a birthmark in the shape of a newly opening rose.
 A ticking triple curse was cast at the moment of her birth, and her
 Time is running out."

"Alone, in the darkness, I was a little frightened, but I was excited to go on, too.
 That's the way it was with stories - you went on because you needed to find out what happened next."