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A review by leighryks
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt
4.0
I read this as part of a reading challenge. The subtitle to this is “A Collection of Five Fairy Stories”. This is not something I would have chosen without the challenge since I prefer novels to short stories. However, the stories are not all the same length. The last one, from which the collection gets its title, is what I would consider to be more of a novella rather than a short story.
The first four stories were just o.k. for me. They were interesting, but I didn’t think they were particularly ground breaking. But, I did enjoy the final longer story--not just because of the longer form though I do think that helped. Unlike the other stories it is also the set in modern times rather than the indeterminate past and the heroine is a middle aged woman and expert in fairytales.
The first four stories were just o.k. for me. They were interesting, but I didn’t think they were particularly ground breaking. But, I did enjoy the final longer story--not just because of the longer form though I do think that helped. Unlike the other stories it is also the set in modern times rather than the indeterminate past and the heroine is a middle aged woman and expert in fairytales.