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“I devoured this.” V. E. Schwab

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

October 13, 2022 by jomidi 1 Comment

As a book lover, I couldn’t resist reading something called The Book Eaters. Especially with the review quote from V. E. Schwab (whom I love) “I devoured this.” Sunyi Dean’s novel is set in a dark fantasy world where there are a group of book eaters who are not human, but instead subside by eating books, which gives them the knowledge in the book. There are also mind eaters who instead eat human brains and gain knowledge that way. Devon is a princess from one […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, dark fairy tale, Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters

jomidi's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, dark fairy tale, Sunyi Dean, The Book Eaters ·
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Fairy Tales of Carnal Desires

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

March 6, 2021 by Singsonggirl 3 Comments

Yep, I definitely enjoy audiobooks more if I’ve read the book before. In this case I even enjoyed it so much, that I very predictably drifted off to sleep while listening to it. Which is fine at night, but not a particularly good idea during home office. I’ll blame it on Emilia Fox’s dulcet voice. As for the book itself: it’s a collection of retellings of fairy tales and myths, all with a slightly more feminist twist and an adult audience in mind.* The stories […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: #feministfiction, Angela Carter, classic retelling, dark fairy tale, erotic

Singsonggirl's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: #feministfiction, Angela Carter, classic retelling, dark fairy tale, erotic ·
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“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.”

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

April 19, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

It happened again. I excitedly picked up a book at the store, rushed it home, then let it sit in a pile for a few months. When I finally opened it days ago I was shocked (and not shocked at all simultaneously, really) that it was an oddly appropriate collection for today’s frightening world. The first page of the book is a quote from poet Elisabeth Hewer, and it lays the roadwork for the furious march within: “god should have made girls lethal when he […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: body horror, carmen maria machado, dark fairy tale, Latinx, law and order SVU, pleasure, queer, Sexuality, womanhood

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: body horror, carmen maria machado, dark fairy tale, Latinx, law and order SVU, pleasure, queer, Sexuality, womanhood ·
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Something missing in Lundy and her Market

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

February 18, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The biggest thing for me here was I had trouble really feeling the motivation. Lundy’s attachment to the Goblin Market is clearly based a little in her friends but one of them is hardly mentioned except that they died (?) and the other one and Lundy don’t really seem to have any kind of emotional attachment. But then again maybe that’s the point? Lundy’s character from her childhood is presented as a rather detached bookworm who doesn’t seem to mind that she doesn’t have a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, dark fairy tale, fairy tale adaptation, in an absent dream, Seanan McGuire, the goblin market, Wayward Children

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, dark fairy tale, fairy tale adaptation, in an absent dream, Seanan McGuire, the goblin market, Wayward Children ·
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Jack and Jill the backstory

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

February 15, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I half succeeded at a library run the other day. I did succeed at getting the next 3 Wayward Children books, but failed to get any more of a manga series I’d grabbed the first 3 of on a whim; at some point in 2 days someone took volumes 4-12. Now I’ve gotta wait at least 2 weeks on those. At least I had Down Among the Sticks and Bones to make up for it. Volume 2 of the Wayward Children series is basically the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: dark fairy tale, down among the sticks and bones, fairy tale, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: dark fairy tale, down among the sticks and bones, fairy tale, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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If You go into The Hazel Woods Today… (Bingo: Travel square)

The Hazel Wood: A Novel by Melissa Albert

September 5, 2019 by sistercoyote Leave a Comment

When Alice was born, her eyes were black from end to end, and the midwife didn’t stay long enough to wash her. (Kindle loc. 221) My mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways. (loc. 37) Holy cats, you guys. This book and my reaction to it are probably going to fall down around my ears like a pack of playing cards or a straw house, but for the moment I am in love.

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr11, cbr11bingo, dark fairy tale, fairy tales reimagined, Fiction, ReadWomen, The Hazel Wood, The Hinterlands, YA, Young Adult

sistercoyote's CBR11 Review No:24 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cbr11, cbr11bingo, dark fairy tale, fairy tales reimagined, Fiction, ReadWomen, The Hazel Wood, The Hinterlands, YA, Young Adult ·
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