A review by vermidian
The String of Pearls: The Original Tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Thomas Preskett Prest

3.0

Wow. Having had no prior exposure to this story aside from the 2007 Johnny Depp musical, reading this was an experience and a half. I came in expecting one thing and got something ENTIRELY different. That said, it wasn't a bad story. I did enjoy it, despite being thrown by how off different it was. Conceptually, the musical gets a lot of things right. However, it gets everything plot wise totally wrong. I really loved how Sweeney himself is described as this visually ugly and frightening man with an unearthly laugh and a mass of hair with all his tools in it. If given the opportunity, I likely would not read this again but it was worth reading once.