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Reread of a middle school favorite, still holds up! A really fun story that plays with time and space and the collapse between the two.
Clive Barker’s imagination is powerful and it’s fascinating to live in his world for a while. One of my genre hang-ups is fantastical worlds that have American/Western constructions of policing, bondage, and enslavement, and Abarat suffers from this, but is otherwise expansive and illuminating about our world, the Hereafter. I can tell that it’s also socially dated in this way.
Additionally, I feel a little jolted by all these men’s deep and somewhat inappropriate affinity and affection for young Candy, but I appreciate her relationships. I wish she had more with women, all the women characters seem a bit otherworldly and/or withholding for now.
On to book two!
Clive Barker’s imagination is powerful and it’s fascinating to live in his world for a while. One of my genre hang-ups is fantastical worlds that have American/Western constructions of policing, bondage, and enslavement, and Abarat suffers from this, but is otherwise expansive and illuminating about our world, the Hereafter. I can tell that it’s also socially dated in this way.
Additionally, I feel a little jolted by all these men’s deep and somewhat inappropriate affinity and affection for young Candy, but I appreciate her relationships. I wish she had more with women, all the women characters seem a bit otherworldly and/or withholding for now.
On to book two!