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hexagong's review against another edition
5.0
Angela Carter is incredibly articulate. I learned a new word on every page. The story was fantastical and anything but simple. It was entertaining, touching, raunchy at times, and so well told. I would happily read any story told by this author.
fevvies's review against another edition
3.0
At first I wasn't sure what to make of this novel. But when I stopped trying to analyse it and just enjoyed the whimsy of it all, I came round to it. It is a nice fairy tale in a sense, and the only thing that bugged me about it was some of the descriptions. Angela Carter described every emotion, and every philosophical musing with the most beautiful language, but left other things which really ought to be described in more depth, without description at all. Other than that, it is quite an enjoyable book.
colorfulleo92's review against another edition
4.0
This is one of the books that have been one my mental TBR for the longest time. I think from around 2016. Don't often buy books new library's, second hand and flea market is more my strategy for getting books. But after I've learned I could request books at my library this was one of the first books I just got to read. I love Angela Carter's way of writing stories. They are a bit weird but in a different beautiful as well. And this was no different from that. I found her stories to be rather uniqe and a fun reading experience even though it can sometimes get a bit odd. I'm intruiged to look for more books by her to request but I think I've only got short stories collections of her left
michaelcattigan's review against another edition
2.0
Great start, Fevvers is a fantastic character and a brilliant voice in the opening part, usurping brilliantly the male narrator... but then it lost its way...
Somehow I feel guilty not liking it!
Somehow I feel guilty not liking it!
lokroma's review against another edition
3.0
A rollicking, bawdy, sometimes raunchy story of the passage of the "new woman" from 1899 into the 20th century. Carter's writing is excellent, dense, rich, but the book is too long by a third.
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: Ableism, Cursing, Misogyny, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, and Blood
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!