Juniper & Thorn: A Novel

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Still, I can appreciate that Reid has crafted a deeply twisted, deeply frightening, and deeply compelling dark fairy tale that is packed to the brim with meaning. I absolutely ADORE THIS BOOK, which is haunting and whimsical and brimming with monsters both human and fantastical. Her sisters - reminiscent of Cinderella's stepsisters - and her father build cages for her, then scold and shame her for her own forced obedience. If anything, the contrast is the point, because the contrast is the conflict - the magical and mundane worlds, at least to the wizard's eyes, are irreconcilable, and the presence and growth of the city is an active detriment to magic and those who practice it.

But they weren't, and in the end, while it distinguishes itself from the rest of the genre, the problems it has while doing so ultimately hold it back from truly excelling. We learn about the abuses she suffered as a child from her father and from others that he knew about but didn't stop, some of it sexual in nature.I need the story to be grounded with a sense of direction regardless of how sinuous the trail may be.

Reid went overdrive with the body horror, adding an excess of gore and bodily functions to the excess sex, so it turns unpleasant very quickly, it grosses you out reading all the vomiting, all the guts out, the blood. view spoiler) [I want to read this book, but I'm very sensitive to animal death, so I wonder, is the animal death content particularly brutal or emotional?Like taking a bite of fruit with a rotten core, the atmosphere is in turns gorgeous and enticing, then shocking and disgusting, and back again.