Reviews with content warning for Racial slurs - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Absolutely not. This is just a story where we glorify a "nice guy" who is trying to woo a woman that he doesn't deserve because he wants her money. He gets spooked away by a ghost or, potentially, the main "love" interest's actual love interest. I personally hope it was the latter. So, Irving gets points for that option but loses a lot for misogyny.

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nytephoenyx's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Sleepy Hollow has a lot of flaws, but if you’re going to read it during the spooky season, Tom Mison makes this edition a treat.

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laurenleigh's review

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mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Huh. That was weird. It was essentially 95% exposition, 2% action, and 3% conclusion. The exposition has great fall spooky vibes at times, but I expected much more from this! It’s interesting how a fable can be used and reused and parodied and then reimagined again…the echos become much bigger than the original sound. It lead me to believe the source material would be bigger or longer or just more. I should note that this isn’t even really source material in some ways. There have been many stories with headless horseman. Perhaps Irving was just the first to Americanize the image? It really feels like this short story would be more successful even shorter, especially if told around a campfire!

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somelatenightreading's review against another edition

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medium-paced

2.0

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maeverose's review against another edition

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medium-paced

1.75

The last 12 pages was the only part I really liked. The rest was pretty boring to me.

Lots of very long sentences with lots of commas. The language (combined with the long sentences) made it hard for me to understand certain parts. Not so much that I didn’t know what was going on in the story, but it was a bit tedious to read. I haven’t read many classics yet, this is the oldest one I’ve read so far, the next being Dracula (which I gave 4 stars).

As you might expect from any classic written by a white man, there’s racism and misogyny in this.

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