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oddfigg 's review for:
Paper Tigers
by Damien Angelica Walters
(Please check out the full review on my blog: http://shelfstalker.weebly.com/shelf-stalker/paper-tigers-damien-angelica-walters)
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny movements inside.”
This line comes from Shirley Jackson’s beautiful, haunting, classic masterpiece [b:The Haunting of Hill House|89717|The Haunting of Hill House |Shirley Jackson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327871336s/89717.jpg|3627] and it’s an epigraph to PAPER TIGERS—one that couldn't be more apt.
This is the story of Alison, a girl who is disfigured by an accident and left alone with only occasional visits from her overbearing mother and the old photo albums she collects for any comfort. She can’t bear to go out into the world because of the way people will stare and whisper, so she stays locked inside with her thoughts and hurts and visions of herself as a Monstergirl.
But what happens when one of the old albums Alison finds is inhabited by someone or something? She’s haunted by the album, visited by its real owner and finds herself getting sucked further and further into the paper world. But not all is quite right; Alison is frightened by the power of the album as much as she is enticed by its possibilities.
I felt that this book was an exploration of the split between the internal and the external self. How are those selves actually different? Who is the real me? Does how the world sees me matter? If it does, then does my external self create and mold my internal self to some extent? Alison’s whole life revolves around her disfiguration—she isn’t able to be who she was anymore. In fact, she isn’t allowed to lead any sort of normal existence. But in truth, the only person who is stopping her from this is herself.
Do yourself the favor of checking out this amazing author, and this amazing press as well. You won't regret it!
Here's my one-line blurb: A beautifully written, chilling haunted house story that is both about the ghosts we create, give life to, and cling to, and the supernatural ones that may find us and use our internal ghosts against us if we are so unlucky.
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny movements inside.”
This line comes from Shirley Jackson’s beautiful, haunting, classic masterpiece [b:The Haunting of Hill House|89717|The Haunting of Hill House |Shirley Jackson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327871336s/89717.jpg|3627] and it’s an epigraph to PAPER TIGERS—one that couldn't be more apt.
This is the story of Alison, a girl who is disfigured by an accident and left alone with only occasional visits from her overbearing mother and the old photo albums she collects for any comfort. She can’t bear to go out into the world because of the way people will stare and whisper, so she stays locked inside with her thoughts and hurts and visions of herself as a Monstergirl.
But what happens when one of the old albums Alison finds is inhabited by someone or something? She’s haunted by the album, visited by its real owner and finds herself getting sucked further and further into the paper world. But not all is quite right; Alison is frightened by the power of the album as much as she is enticed by its possibilities.
I felt that this book was an exploration of the split between the internal and the external self. How are those selves actually different? Who is the real me? Does how the world sees me matter? If it does, then does my external self create and mold my internal self to some extent? Alison’s whole life revolves around her disfiguration—she isn’t able to be who she was anymore. In fact, she isn’t allowed to lead any sort of normal existence. But in truth, the only person who is stopping her from this is herself.
Do yourself the favor of checking out this amazing author, and this amazing press as well. You won't regret it!
Here's my one-line blurb: A beautifully written, chilling haunted house story that is both about the ghosts we create, give life to, and cling to, and the supernatural ones that may find us and use our internal ghosts against us if we are so unlucky.