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The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

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eveningreverie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A tour-de-force. Carter is brilliant, horrifying, and fiercely feminist in her retellings of classic fairy tales. I've written pages and pages on "Snow Child," the shortest story in the collection, coming in at under five pages. She's just that good.

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crowdenks's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious

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

3.0

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rhi_'s review

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dark medium-paced

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

0.5

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mrs_gale's review against another edition

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challenging dark slow-paced

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

1.0

I really didn't like this, i found it very tedious and often boring which surprised me. Carter is a feminist and you can tell with the themes of innocence female victims and the animalistic, primitive nature of male characters repeated in every story.

I found the writing difficult to follow, Carter changes from characters and the narrator quite often which I didn't like.

There are 10 short stories in this book.

1. THE BLOODY CHAMBER.
Didn't mind this story, but I've never read the original Bluebeard story this is based from.

2. THE COURTSHIP OF MR LYON.
Just a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Nothing special yet I adore Beauty and the Beast so I thought I'd enjoy this but nope.

3. THE TIGER'S BRIDE.
Another Beauty and the Beast retelling. Beauty ends up with the Beast because her dad gambles her away. Beauty's father isn't the usual sweet, kind man and I thought it was an interesting take on it . However the Beast just wants to see her naked and at the end Beauty turns herself into a beast so she can be with the Beast. Urgh.

4. PUSS IN BOOTS.
Most interesting main character in all these stories. The story was a bit odd though.

5. THE ERL KING.
Way too odd and didn't like it.

6 THE SNOW CHILD.
Shortest story in this book by far but probably the most shocking.

7. THE LADY OF THE HOUSE OF LOVE.
Didn't like this one at all.

8. THE WEREWOLF.
Odd she wasn't bothered by her Granny's death.

9. THE COMPANY OF WOLVES.
I don't remember this one. Odd since it's near the end of the book so I read it only a few hours ago.

10 WOLF-ALICE.
A weird one. Didn't enjoy it.

Overall I do not recommend. This was almost a DNF for me.

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amu_m3's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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laryssa's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

I LOVED the descriptions of the landscapes and the castles (which is weird for me). Some of the characters were also great (Puss). Some of them felt…stale(?). It’s hard to explain. It weirded me out when some of the characters were so young. I get that fairytales are like that but…I don’t know. I wish she would have challenged the original stories more.

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