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hej234567's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Ableism, Misogyny, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape
expatally's review against another edition
2.0
Loved the writing but I had to work very hard to care about the characters
lucialarsen's review against another edition
3.0
“She owes it to herself to remain a woman, he thought. It is her human duty. As a symbolic woman, she has a meaning, as an anomaly, none.”
Fevver’s is part woman, part bird, her career contingent not on the fact of her (her me-ness, as she calls it) but on the very question: is she fact or is she fiction? This is a question even Fevver’s begins to ask of herself at the end of the book, after she is ripped from her audience. Angela Carter uses magical realism in a turn of the century traveling circus to interrogate the idea of mythos and performance, and how they can both cage us and free us.
Fevver’s is part woman, part bird, her career contingent not on the fact of her (her me-ness, as she calls it) but on the very question: is she fact or is she fiction? This is a question even Fevver’s begins to ask of herself at the end of the book, after she is ripped from her audience. Angela Carter uses magical realism in a turn of the century traveling circus to interrogate the idea of mythos and performance, and how they can both cage us and free us.
alessiasbooks's review against another edition
5.0
Meraviglioso è dire poco, ne vale davvero la pena!
phoebemagdalena's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
sophiejuhlin's review against another edition
3.0
"The Bloody Chamber", Carter's book of macabre fairy tales and gruesome feminist short stories changed my fucking life. I repeat: changed my Fucking. Life.
This book, after a spellbinding, insanely good first hundred pages, dissolves into weirdness and loses itself in its swirling, feverish (Fevverish?) storytelling. Three stars for just the first part.
Stopped exactly halfway through. Not feeling too upset if I miss anything after that.
This book, after a spellbinding, insanely good first hundred pages, dissolves into weirdness and loses itself in its swirling, feverish (Fevverish?) storytelling. Three stars for just the first part.
Stopped exactly halfway through. Not feeling too upset if I miss anything after that.
jreid00's review against another edition
3.0
A solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️
First time I read this book, I was fresh off a full wisdom tooth extraction and thought the plot’s bizarreness was a product of pain meds I was on. I can now say that, after a sober re-read, this book is just as bizarre without the meds. I didn’t hate it, but I can’t say I fully enjoyed it, either.
First time I read this book, I was fresh off a full wisdom tooth extraction and thought the plot’s bizarreness was a product of pain meds I was on. I can now say that, after a sober re-read, this book is just as bizarre without the meds. I didn’t hate it, but I can’t say I fully enjoyed it, either.
brulereads's review against another edition
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
The dogs indeed die. The last third of the story switches pace, tense & perspectives. It ruined an initially compellingly strange book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism and Sexual assault
Minor: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Rape, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
daramillz's review against another edition
4.0
I love Angela Carter - my favorite remains "The Magic Toyshop," but I liked this one also.