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Fairytales for Wilde Girls (2013)

von Allyse Near

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A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent. 'He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!' There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't. But when the girl appears at Isola's window, her every word a threat, Isola needs help. Her real-life friends - Grape, James and new boy Edgar - make her forget for a while. And her brother-princes - magical creatures seemingly lifted from the pages of the French fairytales Isola idolises - will protect her with all the fierce love they possess. It may not be enough. Isola needs to uncover the truth behind the dead girl's demise ...before the ghost steals Isola's last breath.… (mehr)
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This novel was absolutely incredible. The imagery, the story, the characters, everything about it. It was inspiring and I was completely engrossed in the story - it's been a while since I've read a novel I couldn't put down, I kept wanting to go back into that incredibly dark and beautiful and scary world.
I read this as an e-book but I'm going to buy it again as a hard copy to keep close by me when I need to feel less lonely and need inspiration.

Can't wait for more! ( )
  SarahRita | Aug 11, 2021 |
Well written, but too dark for me ( )
  Rezeda | May 27, 2016 |
Isola Wilde is a 21st century teenager, living on the edge of a wood with her emotionally-distant father, her house-bound mother, and the brother-princes that only Isola can see. (None of whom are actually brothers, or princes, and not all of them are even male - they consist two ghosts, a Fury, a mermaid and a faerie,) But everything changes when Isola finds a dead girl in the wood.

The backcover describes this rather aptly as a "deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale". The writing is absolutely gorgeous. I liked the way it plays around with fairytales, and the way it incorporates Victorian Gothic references. I liked Isola's brother-princes, especially Alejandro.

The story becomes just a bit too dark, just a tiny bit too Gothic, for my liking, so it is hard to know how much I liked it as a whole. I'd definitely recommend it to others, because other people draw the line between too dark and not too dark differently to me.

She paused, squinting at her cloudy reflection in the glass and for a moment she felt like a blurred-out identity, a shadow half-glimpsed on a wall. Anonymous Wilde.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall," she breathed around the sticky air in her lungs, "who's the fairest of them all?"
Words appeared in the fog, letters traced in the mirror by the clever fingers of some old magic trapped in the walls:
TEENAGE GIRLS ARE ALL UNFAIR.
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  Herenya | Mar 29, 2016 |
REVIEW ALSO ON: http://bibliomantics.com/2013/09/06/fantasy-girls-gone-wilde-cassie-la-is-enchan...

As a whole, Fairytales for Wilde Girls is a charming love letter to fairy tales and all the intriguing and dark parts of the world, real and imaginary. Complete with unicorns, faeries, dark and stormy nights, evil witches, first loves, magic, poetry and the heavy weights of the gothic literature world this novel has everyone and everything.

Our heroine is Isola Wilde, who if written the wrong way she could be a most unlikeable protagonist. She’s quirky, she has some gothic sensibilities, she has the ability to talk to members of the fairy world and has fantastical friends and normally that would drive my crazy, but rather than hating Isola for being a trying too hard phony you immediately like her.

Named after Oscar Wilde’s deceased sister, Isola Wilde who passed when she was a child, Isola has been taught all her life to live extra hard, for both her and her namesake who died too young.

The happy, carefree life that Isola has built around herself begins to crumble when she finds a dead girl in the woods, a princess to be precise inside a birdcage who was being held captive there by a witch who forced her to sing until she died. Upset by Isola’s loudly beating heart, the princess returns as a angry spirit to take her pain out on Isola, the girl who can see her and the girl who is lucky enough to be alive, all the while singing in her ruined and ragged voice. Terrifying!

In something akin to a security blanket, Isola surrounds herself with her protectors, or what she calls her Brother-Princes inspired by her childhood fairy tale “The Seventh Princess.”

There’s her first brother, the Victorian London cutie Alejandro who died in an opium den, the frightening spirit of vengeance the Fury Ruslana, Rosekin the dramatic faerie, her lanky childhood friend James Sommerwell, mermaid and possible serial-killer Christobelle and of course, the ghost of Grandpa Furlong and his pet spider Dame Furlong.

I’m slightly partial to Christobelle the mermaid because one she’s a mermaid and two, despite being spurned by love as evidenced by the blood pearls which are woven into her pink hair she’s still a hopeless romantic at heart. Or maybe I just love her dark, tragic back story more than anything.

Isola’s creation of the Brother-Princes runs parallel to the story within the story by the fictional authoress Lileo Pardieu who writes tales of “girls who kill, girls who are killed, girls who are alive and girls who are otherwise.” In the tale, a beautiful princess i stolen by some dragons and her six brothers and their various talents head out into the wilderness to save their beloved sister with disastrous consequences. Consequences that beautifully parallel the main story occurring in Wilde Girls.

Other stories within the main book include lilting tales about unicorns seeking revenge. You’ll never look at unicorns the same way again.

And that’s not just to say the novel is only full of fantastical and horrifying events. It’s also incredibly witty. Isola makes reference to people doing things like as drinking “Dickensian helpings of gin” and dating advice from her mother that suggest “never pick the beast or the wolf on the off-chance he won’t devour you.” Isola’s school, St. Dymphna’s (who is the patron saint of the mentally ill, true story) has a tournament every year between teams divided into Arthur and Guinevere houses while Isola decides to make her own team who she dubs Team Mordred. And she even has a crazy friend who is under the impression that Kurt Cobain is merely between records rather than gravestones.

Don’t worry lovers of obscure religious trivia, there’s also references to St. Dominic the patron saint of juvenile delinquents, petty criminals, teen anarchists and “terribly sad people about to commit an in changeable act.” Dominic died at the age of 15 with the dying words, “What beautiful things I see” upon his lips. Just thought I’d throw that in there.

Besides being an enriching modern day fairy tale and a terrifying horror story about the secrets we keep hidden from ourselves, Near’s book is also a treasure hunt of allusions. Isola lives in the town of Avalon (the island in the Arthurian legend) and the nearby woods are dubbed Vivien’s Woods after Vivien, AKA the Lady of the Lady AKA Nimue. And who else lives in Avalon but the shut-in doomsday hermit Boo Radley and Isola’s next door neighbors Edgar Allan Poe and his brothers and sisters Puck, Portia and Cassio.

There’s also references to Annabelle Lee, Alice Liddell, Cinderella, The Virgin Suicides, the most beautiful word in the English language according to J.R.R. Tolkien “cellar door,” the Sword of Damocles, Madame Guillotine, Orpheus and his Underworld wife Eurydice, Sylvia Plath and even Batman. And those are just the ones I remembered.

Near will have you hooked from page one with her rich and inventive prose, keep your reading with her compelling story, and have you gripped all the way to the end. At which point you will then have to immediately re-read the novel because that plot twist. Then you might cry because she’s only 24 and her debut novel is perfection. ( )
  yrchmonger | Sep 9, 2013 |
Fairytales for Wilde Girls is Allyse Near's début novel. It's about sixteen-year-old Isola Wilde, who lives in contemporary England and whose life is intricately interwoven with fairytales. Blurb:


There's a dead girl in a
birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of
things other people don't. But when the girl appears at Isola's window,
her every word a threat, Isola needs help.

Her real-life friends –
Grape, James and new boy Edgar – make her forget for a while. And her
brother-princes – the mermaids, faeries and magical creatures seemingly
lifted from the pages of the French fairytales Isola idolises – will
protect her with all the fierce love they possess.

It may not be enough.

Isola
needs to uncover the truth behind the dead girl's demise and appease
her enraged spirit, before the ghost steals Isola's last breath.


Isola can see ghosts and fairies and other magical beings and often roams the woods by her house. At first she reminded me a little bit of Luna Lovegood sans Hogwarts, but as we learn more about her we see that there is more to her character than meets the eye. Magical creatures aside, in the real world Isola has to deal with a severely depressed mother and an increasingly distant father. She goes to a nun-run school and has a few ordinary human friends but her struggles to cope with her aggressive haunting make her withdraw further into herself and away from her human friends.



Fairytales for Wilde Girls is not a book to read quickly. Although it's not that long, I found it took me longer to read than another book of comparable length might have because there is so much in it I had to pay careful attention to try to catch all the nuances. Isola has a particular attachment to a book of fairytales her mother used to read from when she was younger — darker fairytales than the usual Grimm and Andersen — and throughout the text we're treated to several of the stories from that book. I've found those sorts of interludes jarring in other books, but in Fairytales for Wilde Girls they flowed and tied in with the overall story nicely. The transitions between contemporary teenage life (parties, mobile phones) and the magical world provided a change of pace that kept things fresh. This is a book I want to re-read at some point because I'm sure I'll pick up on things I missed the first time through.



Near weaves some interesting social commentary through her story. Isola's magical friends are brother-princes, including the female ones, because princes in stories are the ones who protect the princess. Quote:


Isola had never learnt to call them sisters — a sister was a wicked nun who smacked Mother's hands, and a sister in a fairytale was almost always evil. And so, Ruslana, Christobelle and Rosekin had remained brother-princes to Isola.

The fairytales Isola cherishes most tend not to be the kind where the princess needs rescuing, instead they are the kind of stories about girls who kill, and girls who are killed. They are more empowering to Isola than Disney-fied fairytales. Her Rapunzel isn't rescued, but hangs herself with her hair. Those kinds of stories. Perhaps not a book for someone looking for a happy fluffy read.



Honestly my only complaint is that I would have liked to have seen a bit more resolution between Isola and her friend Grape. Things are sorted out between them, but the denouement focussed more on Edgar rather than Grape. Not that I had a problem with Edgar, but I sort of wanted to be reassured about Grape as well. Definitely not something which marred my overall enjoyment.



Allyse Near is an author to watch. I will not be surprised if Fairytales for Wilde Girls makes next year's Aurealis shortlist. I look forward to seeing what Near writes in the future. I highly recommend Fairytales for Wilde Girls to all fans of dark fairytales and gothic fantasy. It's not a terrifying read, but it is dark and there are definitely elements of horror throughout. Readers of YA and adult fantasy alike will find much to enjoy in this book.



5 / 5 stars

You can read more of my reviews on my blog. ( )
  Tsana | May 21, 2013 |
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A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent. 'He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!' There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't. But when the girl appears at Isola's window, her every word a threat, Isola needs help. Her real-life friends - Grape, James and new boy Edgar - make her forget for a while. And her brother-princes - magical creatures seemingly lifted from the pages of the French fairytales Isola idolises - will protect her with all the fierce love they possess. It may not be enough. Isola needs to uncover the truth behind the dead girl's demise ...before the ghost steals Isola's last breath.

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