The Seventh Bride

This was a fun and quick read

A little slow in the beginning, and Kingfisher's writing style is definitely different with it being an older book. But it ended up being a good fairytale to get lost in for a morning

Certainly was a quick read! Wouldn't say it was her best work but I did enjoy it

Fun read. Love a good fairytale retelling. This read is especially for a middle grade/ young adult reader.

Everyone seems to love me so I'm wondering if I should just give up on fantasy! I honestly thought there was going to be a higher mystery element on this though which is why I picked it up

Like a grimdark King's Quest-game. <3

Creepy, scary, funny and empowering all at the same time. The hedgehog steals the show.

This tale is in the tradition of “the fractured fairy tale”–it has echoes of traditional stories (for example, “Bluebeard” and maybe “Rumpelstiltskin”) However, the reader does not have the “once-upon-a-time”, magical distance from the characters in the story as in a traditional tale, because the protagonists–especially the “seventh bride” and the previous brides too–are more real and fully developed individuals than in the classical tales. There is, moreover, an interesting mix of genres: a certain “realism”; fantasy; sci-fi (the clock and theories of time). Altogether a good read and an interesting experiment in combining many kinds of entertaining fiction!