Review: Allegorical, metaphorical and pure Poppet
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2013
Fayrie Tayls, especially wryd ones, are strange and wondrous beasts: cautionary tales, morality plays, riddles to entertain and befuddle and bemuse. Worlds skewed ever so slightly, keeping the reader, the listener, off-balance, hanging by tenterhooks in wide-eyed anticipation...Such is the wonder of language, and the wily ability of a storyteller at the height of her craft, to spellbind us with archaic forms and hide-in-the-closet visions, to entertain with characters under the hubris of innocence and purity of purpose who grapple with deceit masquerading as truth.As always, Poppet's characters are never quite what they seem and their journeys of self-discovery are multi-dimensional and multi-layered.The pace is breath-taking, the visuals lush, delicious and nail-bitingly fearsome, and the denouement... Well, you must simply read this for yourself.For best enjoyment of this work, I would recommend you be alone, on a dark stormy night...5 stars for the exquisite use of language, and for sheer inventiveness.