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A review by suncoyote
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
3.0
Several of the stories in this collection were just delicious treats! They were carmel-filled delights of oddity and simplicity. Fairy tales is an apt name for the stories, as they involve magic, absurdity and dream worlds.
On the other hand, some of the other stories seemed a bit lost in translation. To some extent all characters in fairy tales are just caricatures, one dimensional aspects of personality, but sometimes the characters made no sense to me, because they weren't consistent or sympathetic, whether it's understanding them as good or evil. Or the story took a strange turn that didn't necessarily harmonize with the beginning of the story.
Overall, a decent showing.
On the other hand, some of the other stories seemed a bit lost in translation. To some extent all characters in fairy tales are just caricatures, one dimensional aspects of personality, but sometimes the characters made no sense to me, because they weren't consistent or sympathetic, whether it's understanding them as good or evil. Or the story took a strange turn that didn't necessarily harmonize with the beginning of the story.
Overall, a decent showing.