and as a lesbian awakening novel, it fails me, too. So as a fairy tale, it fails me, psychologically. am i the only one feeling bad for sidhean? his was a 'forbidden love', too, and he didn't even get any say in the matter. strangely, she was even more enigmatic than ash's fairy-lover, with his intoxicating presence and fancy gifts and willingness to assist ash in all her assignations.

i never got a sense of character from the huntress she remained enigmatic. is it just a matter of 'the heart wants what the heart wants', and we don't need to explain what attracts two people to each other? there was no 'moment of falling'. i simply do not understand this character's motivations, or what leads her on to her fairy tale ending. is this a universal truth, or am i letting my undergrad 'psychology of fairy tales' class color my thinking here? let's say we all know this to be so. it's not a difficult read, but unlike the others, it is not all surface reading there is depth here that elevates it to the ranks of 'litterature,' yessss.įairy tales are generally symbolic stories which mask universal human desires too emotional or frightening to deal with head-on. boy meets boy and keeping you a secret were so chatty and conversational - this one required more involvement from the reader, which involvement i have been missing in a big way. Goddamn it, this was my bright shiny hope for gay YA week! this was the one i was banking on to be my best 'assigned-but-loved-the-whole-time-i-was-reading-it-and-this-is-why-i-am-paying-for-grad-school-discovery.' a lesbian retelling of cinderella? sign me up! i've already read what robert coover and angela carter have done to improve fairy tales, let's see where this one goes!Īnd it starts out great - the writing is wonderful it is very literary and lush and haunting.

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