Two months ago, I'd never heard of Angela Carter. Now I can't imagine my "Favorites" shelf without The Bloody Chamber being a prominent part of it. Carter's fairy tale reimaginings are elegant, hauntingly beautiful, violent, and sometimes jarring in their vulgarity. Many of the narrators are women w...
Wicked twisted fairy tales for adults only. Some of these will be familiar, however I'm not sure if all these are derived from real folk and fairy tales, but it doesn't matter because it seems like they are. Carter releases these type of stories from the often simpering but always patriarchal pris...
I have never read another writer who writes like Angela Carter. Her writing is beautiful and excessive and utterly lush and extravagant; I can't really describe it any other way. Her wordplay is so elegant and her turn of phrase is beautiful. The stories themselves are twisted versions of dark fair...
I couldn't get into the stories in this collection with the exception of "Puss-in-Boots," which rates 3+ stars.Reading the others felt too much like work, unfortunately.
Beautiful retelling of traditional fairy tales with some criticism on culture and society, mostly through a feminist approach. Somewhat old fashioned but definitely worth reading.
I debated giving this five stars. I love retellings of traditional tales, and these are indeed excellent.However, having recently re-read Tanith Lee's similar collection (Red As Blood), I realize that I personally somewhat prefer Lee's take.Carter has apparently stated that her intention here was no...
As I read the reviews of this book, I came to the following conclusion - in popular YA books, girls aren't going after Prince Charming, but Bluebeard, and there was no better example for this than "The Bloody Chamber", the first story in this anthology.Think about it - a man, with several complexes...
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