A review by coco_lolo
Wise Children by Angela Carter

5.0

I'm hoping to read most, if not all, of Carter's novels this year, and Wise Children won't be easy to beat. The drama, the humor, the dark realities hidden beneath grease paint and glitter, these all made for a tale I didn't expect to be so thoroughly charmed by. The characters were by far the best of Carter's I've encountered so far, and the writing was typical for her but also much more digestible than what I encountered in Love or some of her short fiction. This book gave me so many questions to ponder—What makes us legit versus not? How do we let ourselves be shaped by history, and how do we force out histories into a different shape? What elements of the story changes depending on the teller? All around, excellent.