Unique take on it. I like :)

interesting idea

m stunningly beautiful! i never thought of the real affect perfect little briar rose would have on people. thanks for this perception, it was wonderfully written and detailed. this is a great point of view. the idea of portraying the two different briar roses - of what she couldve been, and what she is with the gifts, was very creative.

great job!

0_0 what an awesome twist to the tale- such a horrid fate for young Rose. The last bits were very chilling...

Wow this story makes me want to cyr it is so pretty

That was great. I'm speechless (the first time I think). Pefection is a curse within itself. You are a amazing author. Keep up the great, great, great, great work.

-Becca

A very powerful, if bittersweet story, told very well. I would have never thought of the fairy in the story as being positive, instead of negative.

umm.. interesting point of view. i've never thought about the gifts of the fairies this way before. in the original sleeping beauty the witch is evil. but you made things different. goes to show that everything has two sides.

keep writing! i luv ur stories, esp. What If?

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That was wonderful, I like stories that turn things on their head like this. And the point about no human being perfect is well done.

The first paragraph is very stilted, and "they could not have children" would probably read better than "they cannot have children", because you've changed from past tense to present tense there.

There are some other places where the writing is stilted, with many short sentences. Maybe you could try reading the story aloud, to try and find those places so that you can make the story a bit more flowing.

Anyway, it's a very nice story. Thanks.

I'm feeling really stupid right now, so I'm not too sure whether I got the correct story. However, I loved this look at the story! That was really great! I loved how you pointed out she was too perfect then, how she cursed her so she would die but still live, how she actually cared about that...Did she bring the princess to her home so she could live happily every after at HER home, not at the princess' place? Wow... I'm really impressed by this! I really like this a lot and you should really try writing another like this!

Great story!

Eldainwe Aduial Elenath

PSCan you read my Ella Enchanted fic "Floods"? It's a Rumpelstiltskin retelling...though I haven't gotten the time to move it to the fairytale section yet. I think I'll go and do it now! Bai!

I'm suprized I have never seen anything like this before. This is pretty good actually.

The idea of perfection being a curse reminds me of what the fairy godmother said in the book

"The Ordinary Princess".

I can tell that this was well thought out. I very much enjoyed reading this (even though I was supposed to be writing a paper.) I had read your story "The Real Princess" a while ago, so I know you are capable of great writing more than once.

Bravo!

I shall now shut the * up because I am such a windbag.

OOh! Interesting! The "witch's" reasoning reminded me of the fairies' reasoning in Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. I liked the reasons why Briar-Rose was thought to be a "mistake" by the witch. Would have been better if the story was a little longer and covered more scenes. I can see why in the later versions of this story, the witch became "evil" cause she did seem a little crazy on getting rid of Briar-Rose, even going as far as to take her from her prince. It was weird that the witch seemed so SURE that Briar-Rose would become this monster just because of fairies' gift...it would be intersting to see a story written like this with the witch feeling the same way but told from Briar-Rose's point of view and it would be uplifting to see a not-so-perfect Briar-Rose overcome the witch's prophecy of cursed perfection. By the way, I liked the ending paragraph. "A baby deformed with magic" was also very good. :) Keep writing!