Other than that it was a paint by numbers retelling of Bluebeard. Quite liked this, but mostly because of the ending where the heroine's mum kills Bluebeard and saves her daughter from death. Also, some sentences read more like paragraphs than sentences, they never bloody ended. There were a number of times I got lost as to what the hell was going on and had to keep re-reading sentences over and over to get some clarity. Hated the writing, it was convoluted, complicated, and nonsensical. There were only a couple of them that I actually found somewhat enjoyable, the rest were rubbish. Having a few heroines with sexual agency didn't magically make them feminist or ground breaking, it takes a lot more than that to modernise a fairy tale. For the most part, I didn't feel that was true. I had high expectations for this, Carter's fairy tale retellings are meant to be well known for being feminist, gothic, and original.
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