Ursula Vernon is apparently working on a series of subversive fairy/folktale treatments, under her pen name of T. Kingfisher. I just read The Raven and the Reindeer today, it's a retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen". It's really excellent, with a lovely femslash element to the story, and some totally marvelous flying otters. Plus a raven with an unwieldy name.
She also did a "Beauty and the Beast" retelling called Bryony and Roses, and something called The Seventh Bride, which is excellent, and seriously creepy. Highly recommended, all of them.
Oh, I loved
The Raven and the Reindeer
! There were so many Finnish elements that delighted me. Maybe this is how people of Scottish-Irish descent feel when they see bits of Scottish and Irish myths and folklore in fantasy novels.
Thanks, Liese.
Interesting,
the fact that I have no idea what a Silencer or Crucifix Soldier is probably explains why their relationship doesn't play quite right on screen.
As for your second paragraph, that scene is what opens the movie and it's amazing, so it was really a shame that the rest of the movie doesn't really live up to
it.
Consuela, I read The Seventh Bride a while ago ... it was enjoyable, if creepy.
megan, the
Silencer is what she calls whatever it is that Evan is and the Crucifix soldier was just her nickname for the guy she killed. Not really that important, just her terminology in the book.
RIP.
My horrible first thought was, "Oh, so that's why there's going to be a Broadway show."
Yeah, I said to my coworker, do you think she really only died just now?
Umberto Eco, RIP.
(Light a candle for your elderly literary icons.)
