5/29/2023 0 Comments Tales of the hinterland![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the leads do achieve a vicious and vengeful sort of triumph, but only one even approaches a conventional happy ending. While every protagonist is female, the themes are not explicitly feminist rather, the overwhelming tone is savage, angry, bitter, and cruel. Despite their vaguely preindustrial Western European setting, these are anything but traditional folktales. Featuring, among others, Hansa the Traveler, Twice-Killed Katherine, and, of course, Alice-Three-Times (whose tale’s much-speculated-about ending falls oddly flat), the stories feel both familiar-the first was already included in its entirety in the series opener and several others, in abbreviated and altered form-and revelatory, unfolding in all their rich, lush, macabre, and grisly glory. Twelve pitch-black original fairy tales form the backbone to an acclaimed fantasy series.įans of the Hazel Wood series know of Althea Proserpine’s cult anthology, the original stories whose characters escaped into our world. ![]()
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