Spoilers for The Fifth Season below! I wanted to take a look at two books which fall on the literary end of speculative fiction, but which are also very aware of the genre’s conventions and influences. Which is to say, that they are both complex and sophisticated, while remaining very much a part of...
I read five books over the weekend (yay Bank Holidays!), which is a huge number for me at the moment, so I'm doing a review catch-up today. Starting with Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox. Mr Fox is...tricky. It begins with Mary Foxe, a fictional character, dropping in on her author, St. John Fox (who is, of...
This was interesting, but I honestly cannot figure out what I'm supposed to think of it. I didn't dislike it, I'd even go so far as to say I liked it, but I could never ever tell you why. Or really what it is about. Or if I liked any of the characters. Or what was going on at almost any point in ...
St. John Fox is a not a nice man. He's hard on his wives. He kills his female characters left and right. He doesn't have close friends. The only person who will really talk to him is not actually real. You see, St. John made up Mary Foxe. For years, she's been his muse but now even Mary is fed up wi...
Not so much of roller coaster ride as a visit to local festival ground. Millions of things to distract you, too much interesting to to see at once, unpredictable people, situation. Not all are great, though the one that is great is painfully acutely good (of the heart stabbing type). At the end, I d...
Not so much of roller coaster ride as a visit to local festival ground. Millions of things to distract you, too much interesting to to see at once, unpredictable people, situation. Not all are great, though the one that is great is painfully acutely good (of the heart stabbing type). At the end, I d...
"She was scared right out of her mind. She had to be--to rescue herself. So she quit working to make sense of things--we don't always realize it, but it's hard work we do almost every waking moment, building our thoughts and memories and action around time, things that happened yesterday, and things...
Let's see if I can sum up my thoughts about this book with some clarity...The writing is good; I liked the general tone and pace.I was thinking I'd be reading a novel when I saw this at the library, and I thought it would have fairy-tale aspects. The blurb that got me to check it out was "From a pri...
I have not read such a intricate and multi-faceted book like this one in quite some time- it simply blew my mind away. It is strongly based on the story of Bluebeard, and can described as a tangled net of short stories in which there is a 21-st century version of Bluebeard, played as a story-inventi...
Wow. A wonderful tapestry of overlapping stories based on folk & fairy tales (Bluebeard/fox tales), morphing between reality & imagination & back again. Lyrically written. It's by turns fascinating, magical, creepy, bizarre, funny, & utterly enchanting. Hard to describe. Amazing. And wonderful.
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