A review by moonpix
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter

4.0

Enchantingly written despite not reaching the stylistic heights of her later work. Also quite interesting thematically (if sometimes muddled, and with troubling racial politics) as a feminist critique of mythologies. You feel these twin projects, of the sensual pleasures of writing and the deconstructing of myths, begin to really come together with this novel. In order to unravel folklore and religion you have to understand their pull, and the tactile beauty of her prose allows her to get up close to it all. It ends up creating a real subtlety where she herself, along with her characters, simultaneously falls prey to and wars against myth and its consequences.

So yeah, still just about the most exciting writer I have ever read