amandaquotidianbooks 's review for:

The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter

2.0

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For some reason this book couldn't keep my attention very well and actually made me groggy. Apart from that this is foremost a story about a trio of siblings whose parents die and have to move in with an estranged uncle and his strange family. Nothing in this book is beautiful or happy. There's domestic violence and poverty and general uncleanliness. Not sure why this is titled The Magic Toyshop as nothing is magical and the toy shop is where much of the trouble happens. It had a weird abrupt ending that left me asking what the point of this novel was. Not sure if I'll be trying another of Carter's novels.