![]() ![]() Her ‘colour’ based short story collections, Black Juice, White Time, Red Spikes and Yellowcake are both hit and miss. ![]() Yet I absolutely hated her novel, Tender Morsels, a retelling of Snow White and Rose Red. I love the way her prose rips your heart out with poetic and wild abandon. I have long respected her ability to twist and innovate with her language and narrative structure. ![]() My relationship with Lanagan’s work is somewhat odd. I bought a copy for the holiday break alongside Margo’s short story collection, Red Spikes, as a semester ending treat. I’d heard a bit about Sea Hearts through the blogosphere grapevine, and of course, Margo was also at the Sydney Writer’s Festival this year discussing the dark limits (and horizons) of speculative fiction, including those explored in Sea Hearts. To be honest, I should still be doing thesis work as I type, but this book is too good to give short shrift in the reviews department. Hence, this blog has had blog posts scattered few and far between since July. I finished this book back in July but my thesis work attacked me and gave me heart palpitations over how much I still had left to do on it. Sea Hearts, Margo Lanagan, Allen and Unwin, 2012 ![]()
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