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The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

36 reviews

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape

rhi_'s review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Torture, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Death, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexism, Incest, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

hannahws's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Eerie! Angela Carter’s writing style is swoon-worthy, so rich and sensual. Dark and foreboding, these are the types of short stories that linger in the brain long after you’ve finished reading them. My favourites were “The Bloody Chamber”, “The Tiger’s Bride”, “Puss-in-Boots”, and “The Lady of the House of Love”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

amu_m3's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Pedophilia, Body horror, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Ableism, Torture, and Slavery

laryssa's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault

pettypierrot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

bingosoap's review against another edition

dark reflective tense 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Violence, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Body horror

Minor: Gore and Cannibalism

suzylit's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

A landmark in the feminine literary tradition. Four decades later those fairytale retellings still ring true.
I was just a little frustrated by some of the stories I would have wanted more of.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Sexism, Body horror, Violence, Animal cruelty, Child death, Mental illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

wispy_reviews's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

3.75

Angela Carter’s prose is beautiful, if confusing at times.  She twists these old stories with a sort of dark feminism; her heroines’ sexuality and womanhood is a source of power as much as it is of frustration, and each story approaches these concepts differently.  What’s more, the men in these stories are usually associated with beastliness (not uncommon or unfounded) but many times Carter ends her tales with reconciliation: neither gender is wholly perfect, both sides have their own inherent trauma and neither one is invalidated.  A wonderful takeaway.
I would say the first story of this collection, the book’s namesake, is the strongest of the bunch and is deeply compelling though I greatly enjoyed how the Erl-King was written.
Many of these stories are the same fairy tale rewritten, which is interesting at first but I would have liked to see more variety.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Violence

caraineastlondon's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault