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Original Title: | Tender Morsels |
ISBN: | 0375848118 (ISBN13: 9780375848117) |
Edition Language: | English |
Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2009), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2008), Ditmar Award for Best Novel (2009), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2009), Sakura Medal Nominee for High School Book (2010) James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2008) |
Margo Lanagan
Hardcover | Pages: 436 pages Rating: 3.57 | 5515 Users | 1308 Reviews
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Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga’s refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?Mention Epithetical Books Tender Morsels
Title | : | Tender Morsels |
Author | : | Margo Lanagan |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | First Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 436 pages |
Published | : | October 14th 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf (first published October 14th 2007) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Retellings |
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Ratings: 3.57 From 5515 Users | 1308 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books Tender Morsels
I'll have to DNF this one. It's amazingly written story, and it's not surprising as Margo probably knows some magic for storytelling. The problem here is that this book is too shocking for me. I simply can't stomach some things. Nothing new mind you, but Liga's voice is innocent and childish one which makes this really hard to process. I'll get back to it one day, maybe.At first, Tender Morsels drew me in, but the middle kind of lost me (it seemed a little tedious to me).Lately, I've been hearing "If you don't like a book, put it down. There are too many other good books out there you could be reading."But I'm not very good at that. If I see the tiniest bit of merit in a book, I'll keep plugging away. And I saw that in this book. The end did actually pull me back in, but mainly because it did a good job of tying up all the loose ends and revealing what happened
Yes, the first 50 pages are exceptionally brutal. I was reading them on the subway during rush hour and my hands were shaking. Yes, there are a lot of different voicesa third-person narrative interspersed with three (maybe four?) first-person accounts of strange occurrences that intrude upon the third-person sections. But I never really lost the thread of the story. And yes, there are some scenes that dance on the edge of bestiality, when a female bear somehow becomes a convincingly appropriate
Tender Morsels is a hard book to review. I wanted to like it sooo much! After all, I like the writing, the world Margo Lanagan created, the magic and even the disquieting nature of the story. I've always had a fascination with the older, more violent and more disturbing versions of Grimms fairytales, so this book seemed to be right up my alley. Unfortunately, it had too many issues for me to over look. What comes to mind, first and foremost is the fact that this book is geared towards young
Paul Bowles once said that his wife Jane had difficulty writing because she couldn't do it the easy way like everyone else, but was forced to reinvent everything from scratch. In a way, Tender Morsels feels exactly like this kind of reinvention: nothing comes easily, or proceeds in the accepted and comfortable direction. Description, characterization, dialogue, point of view and narrative are fractured in interesting, inventive and often startling ways.This is, of course, also a reinvention of a
So far, it is horrible. By page 50, the main character has been raped multiple times by at least six different men, one being her father. She has been pregnant two different times, both her father's children. After I wrote this review, I tried to continue but just couldn't. I didn't finish the book - I stopped on page 83. If someone actually gets through it and likes it, let me know!
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