Holly Virginia Blackford

2.5

This had some interesting points and analysis about the evolution of characters in children's fiction that take on a Persephoe esque arc in books. However, the last few chapters are by far the best, being consise and well written while the previous feel like a desprate attemp to make this long enough to be a book and include a lot of rambling and circling. There wasn't a lot of compasrison between the books after the beginning, which I would have liked to have seen more of as each chapter got repetitive. How. She started, talking about how this archtype evovled with the times was very interesting and I would have liked to have read more about it, but it soon became clear that she was adding what she could to justify includinging her last chapters, as those were the best ones and seemed to be her motivation for writing was more about publishoing them as a book and then needing more pages. Take a character, establish that they are female, talk about their "toy" and "decent" and "Zues figure" and so on and repeat. Every single time. I will say the last three were the most ointeresting, and the most consise. And I'm not sure if it's just me, but I found that way she talked about Ginny Weasly in the Chamber of Secrets section a bit creepy.… (mehr)