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“If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

February 23, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Never have truer words been spoken! This collection of short stories crept around my periphery for some time, and I am both overjoyed to have finally given in to it and disappointed in myself for not biting earlier. I came across it originally on a list of fairy-tale retellings on Autostraddle, and when it popped up again in the employee recommendations section of one of my favorite booksellers (Crow Bookshop in Burlington, what’s up!) I knew that it was meant to be. Still, it sat […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: Angela Carter, beauty and the beast, bluebeard, european folklore, fairy tale, feminist retelling, magical imagery, puss in boots, Red Riding Hood, retelling, vampires, violence, werewolf, witchcraft

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: Angela Carter, beauty and the beast, bluebeard, european folklore, fairy tale, feminist retelling, magical imagery, puss in boots, Red Riding Hood, retelling, vampires, violence, werewolf, witchcraft ·
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My first wish for 2016 is for Bettie Sharpe to publish more stories.

December 30, 2015 by alwaysanswerb 4 Comments

I was hooked about two pages into Ember, a romance retelling of “Cinderella” featuring a heroine who is a (mostly) benevolent witch and a prince who is literally cursed by Charm — everyone who meets him loves him, finds him salivatingly handsome, and can’t help but do what he wants. I knew immediately I would want to read everything by this author, which, I’ll mention now, is devastatingly little that is available: three novellas and one short story on Amazon and none published after 2012. […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Bettie Sharpe, cinderella, erotic romance, fairy tale retelling, puss in boots

alwaysanswerb's CBR7 Review No:115 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Bettie Sharpe, cinderella, erotic romance, fairy tale retelling, puss in boots ·
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