RaveBookslutThis mesmerizing set of tales juxtaposes the romance and violence of fairy tales with that which occurs in the real world. Foreboding bits are borrowed from the story of Bluebeard and from Grimm's Fitcher's Bird, but the novel reaches deeper than these already dark tales … The Fox(e) stories begin as rather simple doomed romances with allusions to these stories and characters, but the fairy tale elements become more prominent throughout the book until it's nearly impossible to distinguish what's real and what's imaginary … While the book's concept is unique, the prose is pretty much perfect, and the allusions are rich, this is what has stuck with me most since reading the book: I've been tricked into identifying with a victim that I never imagined I could.
