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in Book ReviewJune 9, 2012
Black Metal: Beyond The Darkness
Reviewed by Jo Blackened
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in Book ReviewMarch 18, 2012
The simplest way to describe Angela Carter’s collection of short stories is fairytales gone dark. She takes familiar children stories and folktales like ‘Blue Beard’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Snow White’, etc. and draws on their already bloody nature to create absorbingly dark stories.
The narrative is lush and sensual, with sexuality being one of the most explored themes in the book. The atmosphere is filled with classic gothic elements that can satisfy even the most demanding tastes: forsaken castles, dark forests, luxuriant chandeliers, sadistic counts, and countesses in scarlet heels.
in Book ReviewSeptember 15, 2011
I bought Killing Cupid for my Amazon Kindle after browsing for cheap books which looked fairly interesting. The cover art caught my eye first, a scantily clad woman holding a gun with rose petals portraying blood. A second look showed me that the price of this book was only 49p, so even if the book didn’t live up to its first impressions I wouldn’t have wasted much money. Better a book than a chocolate bar anyway!
in Book ReviewMarch 11, 2011
Wasn’t quite sure about Melvin Burgess’ Smack when I first picked it up. Just seemed like another book about another set of junkies. What I wasn’t prepared for was the raw honesty of the story, combined with the ease in which I got caught up in the narrative.
in Book ReviewOctober 10, 2010
Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill’s follow-up to his limited-release first novel 20th Century Ghosts, is an adrenaline-rush of heart-pounding moments, combining the macarbe with the everyday. The result is a terrifyingly believable experience that will latch on to your mind and refuse to budge, even if the book is stored in the freezer…
in Book ReviewSeptember 9, 2010
The Screwtape Letters is one of those books that I’ve been told too many times to read, always from those whose tastes are much more conservative than mine, which is why I avoided it. Or it could’ve been because Lewis was heavily religious and I was worried that his point of view would be shoved down the reader’s throat.
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