Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by zillanovikov
Cherry-Rose: Blood & Wishes by Jeffery C. Wiederkehr
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
My favourite books are, like me, absurd and difficult to pin down. This makes it difficult to write a review. Unfortunately, if I don't write a review, you might not read Cherry Rose and then I can't talk about it with you, and it's one of those books that sticks in your head and wants to be discussed. So I'll try.
There is a lonely, unloved young woman in a cottage in the first. This is the start of a fairytale. Not a Disney fairytale, but Brothers Grimm, where bloody toes are cut off and stepmothers die in agony. Perhaps the young woman, who had done her best to be loved all her life, should have been the protagonist of the story, visited and made whole by the fairy. Instead, she becomes the mother, and fairytales are never kind to mothers, because mothers are never kind to daughters.
Cherry Rose, the doll-daughter, is visited by the fairy, but that only lets her escape the bell jar of the cottage, and the world is a series of bell jars upon bell jars, and what does it mean to escape only to find a bigger cage, a talking bear for father replacing a witch for mother. Fairytales are rarely kind to fathers, either. But if you were ever a daughter who needed to escape, you may recognize yourself in the pages. I hope you don't.
Sink into this book and let the ivy bury you, let the crows peck out your eyes until you cannot read to finish it. I promise it's worth it.
There is a lonely, unloved young woman in a cottage in the first. This is the start of a fairytale. Not a Disney fairytale, but Brothers Grimm, where bloody toes are cut off and stepmothers die in agony. Perhaps the young woman, who had done her best to be loved all her life, should have been the protagonist of the story, visited and made whole by the fairy. Instead, she becomes the mother, and fairytales are never kind to mothers, because mothers are never kind to daughters.
Cherry Rose, the doll-daughter, is visited by the fairy, but that only lets her escape the bell jar of the cottage, and the world is a series of bell jars upon bell jars, and what does it mean to escape only to find a bigger cage, a talking bear for father replacing a witch for mother. Fairytales are rarely kind to fathers, either. But if you were ever a daughter who needed to escape, you may recognize yourself in the pages. I hope you don't.
Sink into this book and let the ivy bury you, let the crows peck out your eyes until you cannot read to finish it. I promise it's worth it.