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acejolras 's review for:
In a Glass Darkly
by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It took me a month to work through this, as the language was very dense, but I found it very understandable as long as I put the work in. As a wlw, I feel like I’m supposed to pick Carmilla as my favorite, but it is actually second to The Room in the Dragon Volont. It was like a fun, low-stakes slice of Count of Monte Cristo, which I adore, with a narrator dumb enough to make Albert look like a MENSA candidate. To me that was the most horrific, despite no supernatural elements, because it’s so clear to the reader what is happening while the narrator just digs his own grave deeper and deeper.
Carmilla was great and so explicitly queer. If anything I think it suffers from a modern lense because even though I know it pre-dated every other modern vampire story, they draw so heavily from it that it feels extremely familiar going in.
Carmilla was great and so explicitly queer. If anything I think it suffers from a modern lense because even though I know it pre-dated every other modern vampire story, they draw so heavily from it that it feels extremely familiar going in.