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Bitter Greens, by Kate Forsyth
Mar. 18th, 2018 05:15 pmThis book is definitely in the Literature genre, despite having strong elements of fantasy. But as Literature goes it's really quite good.
It's a retelling of the Rapunzel story, from the perspective of a) the author of the story, one of the French salon fairy-tale writer women of the 17th century, b) the Rapunzel character, and c) the witch character.
Kate Forsyth is clearly interested in grounding the story firmly in a historical setting, though one where magic is real. This is great. I love how many historical details Forsyth weaves into the story to bring the time period alive, and how the magic feels a natural part of that world because the people of the time at least somewhat believed in this kind of magic.
I also loved that this was a novel where all of the main characters are women.
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It's a retelling of the Rapunzel story, from the perspective of a) the author of the story, one of the French salon fairy-tale writer women of the 17th century, b) the Rapunzel character, and c) the witch character.
Kate Forsyth is clearly interested in grounding the story firmly in a historical setting, though one where magic is real. This is great. I love how many historical details Forsyth weaves into the story to bring the time period alive, and how the magic feels a natural part of that world because the people of the time at least somewhat believed in this kind of magic.
I also loved that this was a novel where all of the main characters are women.
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