{"id":38199,"date":"2013-04-14T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=38199"},"modified":"2013-04-15T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:36:28","slug":"poison-by-sarah-pinborough-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/poison-by-sarah-pinborough-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Poison by Sarah Pinborough book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fairy tales are so on trend right now; big-screen adaptations of popular classics are filling cinemas and reuniting audiences with their childhood memories as well as encouraging a whole new army of fans. Jeremy Renner has made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/37149\/hansel-and-gretel-witch-hunters-review\/\"><em>Hansel And Gretel<\/em><\/a> sexy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/36041\/jack-the-giant-slayer-film-review\/\"><em>Jack The Giant Slayer<\/em><\/a> is no longer just a village pantomime and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/28254\/snow-white-and-the-huntsman-blu-ray-review\/\"><em>Snow White<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has morphed from pitiful victim to feisty ass kicker.<\/p>\n<p>So meet the latest in a succession of<em> Snow White<\/em> reincarnations in Sarah Pinborough\u2019s <em>Poison<\/em>, the first in a new trilogy of interwoven fairytales retold with the cynical realism of the wry anarchist.<\/p>\n<p>We are all familiar with the legendary tale of <em>Snow White And The Seven Dwarves,<\/em> and there are thankfully no unwelcome character inclusions or omissions in <em>Poison<\/em>. In fact, Pinborough sticks quite religiously to the original story, focussing initially on the &#8216;wicked&#8217; queen, Lilith, and her unhappy marriage to Snow\u2019s over-indulgent father.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, it is easy to empathise with Lilith when the sickeningly perfect Princess Snow White is around, flaunting her popularity and unbearable sweetness. It is almost a disappointment that Pinborough does not meddle with the legend and actually warrants the love-struck Huntsman with a little more backbone.<\/p>\n<p>True to the life of a miner, the seven dwarves are not the happy go lucky, whistle-while-you-work comedic characters. Years of working underground has left them with lung damage, missing limbs and a real reason to be Grumpy. They are a fiercely loyal and honourable race, devastated to discover they were unable to protect their beloved Snow White from the evil old crone with the juicy red apple.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so familiar, yet this \u2018mirror, mirror on the wall\u2019 leads you down what seems a recognizable and well-trodden path only to draw you into a much deeper, darker fairy tale world where handsome princes are literally too good to be true and cute furry animals do not help you get dressed in the mornings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fairytale subversion Poison by horror queen Sarah Pinborough is out 18 April 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":38202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,8],"tags":[2247,1981],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Poison-by-Sarah-Pinborough-book-club-review.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}