I love Catherynne M. Valente. I fell in love with her writing and worlds when I first read her Fairyland series. Ever since reading those books, I have set out to buy and collect all of her works. I'm well on my way and now I am the proud owner of more than half her novels. Just three more and I wil...
From the blurb: From New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes a brilliant reinvention of one of the best known fairy tales of all time. In the novella Six-Gun Snow White, Valente transports the title's heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West where Coyote is just as likely to be...
Quality fairytale retelling which brings something new to an old story? Check. Well realized world-building, and interesting characters? Check. Perfectly nailed Western feel, and good use of dialect (which captures tone, but doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out)? Check and check.This book brough...
Why haven't I read this author before? Because this, guys, this. The ending fell a little flat to me: too open, didn't say as much as the rest of the book did, and I was like 'huh, what, now?' Then again, the book was perfection and if the last page didn't do it for me, well, the rest gave me ...
This is actually the second book I've read this year which retells "Snow White" as a story about race (the first being Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird). In Valente's version, the story's heroine is the daughter of a Native American woman, Gun That Sings, forcibly married to a white man, Mr H. She's ...
Valente’s writing can be pretty “out there,” to my mind. The Orphan’s Tales duology is great and Deathless also very good, but I wasn’t able to get past the sample of Radiance. Six-Gun Snow White is deceptively grounded: it’s a retelling of a familiar fairytale, and it’s set in the 19th century Amer...
A Snow White western. That's what this is. It's dark, depressing. The writing is very creative and descriptive. It is definitely not the type of book I normally read (happy!). I was drawn to the beautiful, non-white protagonist (and the cover is beautiful too) and the fairy telling re-telling. The f...
New Review! Catherynne M. Valente retells Snow White in her usual gloriously poetic language. Is it any wonder this wins an almost-perfect score from me. http://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2014/03/2014-nebula-nominated-novella-readssix.html Go take a gander at the why.
If there is one thing I can say for Valente, she certainly has a way with words. She weaves a phrase so well and sometimes in such a twisted way, that you have to reread the passage. And I imagine if I were to reread this novella I would see things I did not the first time. Therefore I'm sure each p...
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