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gothamcityballet 's review for:
Poison
by Sarah Pinborough
This is overall a pretty effective retelling, but Pinborough doesn't expand on some of the details of her world as much as one would hope, for example drawing the connection between Dwarves and African slaves too soon too allow the reader to use their own mind.
I suppose this is what makes the book is fairly quick to read, and I suspect the other two fairytales she's covered connect to one another.
The four sex scenes (one of which is only implied) all strike the right balance of tasteful and hot, and the plot is still the main event. The Evil Step-Mother, Lilith, seems a little Cersei Lannister, in both motivations and habits, but I would argue that this is really her story.
Pinborough really pushes the idea of the damaging effects of the male gaze with this story, and the ending reflects that, but it nonetheless feels a little bit like a bait-and-switch. I don't really know what I was expecting, but I'll be reading her other fairytales in the future.
I suppose this is what makes the book is fairly quick to read, and I suspect the other two fairytales she's covered connect to one another.
The four sex scenes (one of which is only implied) all strike the right balance of tasteful and hot, and the plot is still the main event. The Evil Step-Mother, Lilith, seems a little Cersei Lannister, in both motivations and habits, but I would argue that this is really her story.
Pinborough really pushes the idea of the damaging effects of the male gaze with this story, and the ending reflects that, but it nonetheless feels a little bit like a bait-and-switch. I don't really know what I was expecting, but I'll be reading her other fairytales in the future.