Sleeping Beauty in a Young Adult, Science Fiction format with the emphasis on the readjustment after she wakes. I could wish for a better title, this one is a bit weak. The allusions are not disguised, her name is Rose, and one character calls her Briar Rose from almost the beginning - just in case anyone missed the connection.
It actually is rather well done and is just twisty enough to keep it interesting. Her parents were in the habit of putting her in stasis whenever she was inconvenient - which was quite often. She figured out that when she was sixteen (biological age), she was actually thirty-eight in chronological age. At any rate, when she became an annoying teenager, they put her in stasis and left her there.
While she was "out of circulation," there was a series of apocolyptic global catastrophes and when she is found sixty-two years later (which, in case you haven't done the math, adds up to an even 100 years), there is no one left that she had known. And, by the way, she is the sole heir to the company that, to all intents and purposes, owns what is left of the world - even post-Dark Days not an inheritance to be sneezed at.
It is also a coming of age story. Rose has been so manipulated for all of her "life" that she has no will, drive, or positivity about herself at all. Through the people and events that follow her awakening, she finds all of that and more and takes direct charge of her life - not exactly in the usual fairy-tale ending, but in many ways more interesting, if only for the novelty.
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