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Delphine (2013)

by Richard Sala(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1606995901 (ISBN13: 9781606995907)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Fantagraphics

review 1: A young man goes in search of a special girl he met at school and ends up in a creepy, unending, sepia-toned nightmare,. Are those people really witches and goblins or just innocent merchants and townsfolk? Here are the deep, dark woods of fairy tales, peopled by an evil stepmother, a kind-hearted woodsman and a big, bad wolf.This was a darkly enchanting read, filled with luscious but disturbing imagery. When I finished the book, I had that weird feeling you get after waking from a strange, half-remembered dream.
review 2: This is a fairy tale in the true sense (rather than the Disney sense) with a grave sense of foreboding from start to finish and a dark gloomy atmosphere that sends shivers up your spine. Sala has taken the traditional fairy tale of the da... moremsel in distress and turned the perspective around to follow the man in his quest while the woman is largely hidden from view, so much so that throughout the book it seems as though our 'damsel' does not need rescuing at all. This combined with the strange disturbing characters and subdued colour palette makes this a chilling and cautionary tale, particularly as our 'hero' reflects on his journey and all that could have been. less

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