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Bloody Fabulous: Stories of Fantasy and Fashion
by
Ekaterina Sedia ,
Shirin Dubbin (Goodreads Author), Genevieve Valentine, Holly Black (Goodreads Author), Richard Bowes, Zen Cho (Goodreads Author), Kelly Link, Sandra McDonald
,
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Lace.
Leather.
Open collars over exquisite collarbones.
A single red drop on paper-white cuffs.
From the brocade extravagance of the Unseelie courts to the ubiquitous leather of supernatural detectives to the old-fashioned good taste of wealthy vampires—we are as familiar with fantasy protagonists’ attire as we are with their paranormal deed. Tales of tormented designers and w...more
Leather.
Open collars over exquisite collarbones.
A single red drop on paper-white cuffs.
From the brocade extravagance of the Unseelie courts to the ubiquitous leather of supernatural detectives to the old-fashioned good taste of wealthy vampires—we are as familiar with fantasy protagonists’ attire as we are with their paranormal deed. Tales of tormented designers and w...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
November 15th 2012
by Prime Books
(first published October 22nd 2012)
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I bought this collection because it had a Zen Cho story in it, and while her piece ("The First Witch of Damansara") is my favorite in the book, I enjoyed several of the others as well. As might be expected from a fashion-themed speculative fiction anthology, it's heavy on the vampires, but there's also fairies, ghosts, time-travelers, immortal children of an Aztec blood god, and acrobatic mathematicians. (I quite liked the acrobatic mathematicians.)
Meh. One expects unevenness in an anthology, but also for wading through the stack of tales, one hopes for gems: no nuggets here. One passable tale by Snyder. The stories were not fit for any one audience...from cutesy to gritty in rather disparate branches. They all had some connection to cloth, but the 'bloody' had so many interpretations that the collection was erratic and unsatisfying.
This is a rare anthology where I thought the whole was better than the sum of the parts. Only one of the stories (Kelly Link's) stuck me as wonderful in its own right. However, the variety in the stories and the enormous range in the ways they worked fashion into the stories was endlessly fun. I kept being surprised.
I really enjoyed most of the selections here! A few weren't stellar, but on the whole, it was a pretty interesting collection, and focusing it on fashion made for an unusual theme, though it fits very well with fairytales and fantasy. After all, old fairy tales spend an awful lot of time around tailors and describing dresses.
This is a great bunch of stories, well collected by a loose theme of fantasy (mostly urban fantasy) and fashion. I like anthologies because I get introduced to new authors, but I'm usually disappointed in a story or two. I have to admit, there was not one story in here that I didn't like for some reason, which is really rare for me! One of the last, about a fashion photographer trying to figure out how to photograph vampires, has a lovely twist to it. Highly recommend for light but well-written...more
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(Contributing author review, but I'm very honest!) From the off, this anthology is striking. I liked the premise right from the start and I love the cover and design of the thing – quite fitting for an anthology themed around the importance of fashion to fantasy and horror.
I won’t mention every story, but some of my favourites were: Holly Black’s ‘Coat of Stars’, a charming and prettily written version of the classic changeling tale; ‘The Anadem’ by Sharon Mock, a subtly sinister story of magica...more
I won’t mention every story, but some of my favourites were: Holly Black’s ‘Coat of Stars’, a charming and prettily written version of the classic changeling tale; ‘The Anadem’ by Sharon Mock, a subtly sinister story of magica...more
This was a good anthology I actually read all of the stories, which I don't often do with collections. The only author I was familiar with was Holly Black and I'd actually read that in before. I did enjoy the vampire ones the best:)
As with most sets of short stories, some were good, some were not so good.
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