**spoiler alert** The Safeword storyline is my least favorite part of Y, hands down. In hindsight, I get what they were going for, but I think that th**spoiler alert** The Safeword storyline is my least favorite part of Y, hands down. In hindsight, I get what they were going for, but I think that the buildup was lacking, so the intervention seems to come out of left field. I was also uncomfortable with the rape elements. It's not necessarily a bad thing to be made uncomfortable by something you read, but since the setup didn't seem to be there, it just felt like gratuitous discomfort rather than the kind of discomfort that makes one think. I just didn't buy Yorick being suicidal - the character up to that point just seemed reckless, and I felt like rather than just being told that his recklessness is suicidal didn't work. I needed to have seen it, so that the revelation clicked, and it didn't.
Since I read these in single issue form, I don't connect the Widow's Pass storyline to the Safeword storyline as closely as I suppose one would if reading in collected format. I quite enjoyed that one. PJ is one of my favorite guess characters and I was quite bummed about her death....more
I reread this recently immediately after reading through Sandman and liked it quite a bit more. I think on my initial reading I was expecting somethinI reread this recently immediately after reading through Sandman and liked it quite a bit more. I think on my initial reading I was expecting something different, but as a kind of related short story collection it actually stands up quite well....more
I hate to admit that this book made no sense to me, but it made no sense to me. I read it for my senior seminar in religion, and even after it was expI hate to admit that this book made no sense to me, but it made no sense to me. I read it for my senior seminar in religion, and even after it was explained to me I didn't get it. Or like it. Or particularly agree with his thesis....more
This is one of my favorite books, and possibly the book that kicked off my love of the fairytale retelling genre. I read this for the first time when This is one of my favorite books, and possibly the book that kicked off my love of the fairytale retelling genre. I read this for the first time when I was recovering from jet lag at my aunt's house, on a weekend lay over after spending the second half of my junior year of college abroad. I remember this being a soothing, enjoyable read then, and it still is after multiple rereads.
Set in a sort of pseudo-celtic medieval alternative history, the book retells the story of The Wild Swans: here there are six brothers turned into swans by an wicked step-mother, and the narrator is the daughter who has to rescue them by staying silent for years while weaving shirts out of nettles. Marillier's language is simple but beautiful, which is why I keep buying her books. It's sad that her most recent stuff in this series has fallen into a bit of a rut, because she's a great story-teller....more
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