✘✘ Sarah ✘✘ (former Nefarious Breeder of Murderous Crustaceans)'s Reviews > Through the Woods

This one is as darkly beautiful as it is beautifully dark. What more can a nefarious tyrant with a penchant for all things aesthetic ask for, I wonder? Not much, methinks. Not bloody shrimping much.

The graphics and colors are scrumptiously delicious and deliciously scrumptious.





Damn, the whole thing is so magnificently done even the fonts are yummy as shrimp. (Which is slightly outrageous, if you ask me.)



Then there's the Sometimes Creepy Something Spooky Sometimes Serie Stuff (SCS⁵™).



There are hatchet-wielding damsels in distress lovely yellow dresses.


And friendly flappers with, errr, problematic dental hygiene.



Then there are Somewhat Shook Up Maidens (SSUM™) who should stay at home and play whist or sew or embroider or some other fascinating occupation of the sort (like any proper, self-respecting, young Regency lady) instead of pretending she can speak to the dead and stuff.





Oops.

(“Serves the silly girl right,” is reported to have said Mrs Bennett when she heard of poor Janna's demise.)

Things go bump sshkhhcsshkks in the night.



Madame Beauchamp? I wouldn’t bet on it, darling child.

Some puny humans have trouble sleeping. (I’d read Historical Romance, if I were them. Best cure for insomnia, if you ask me.) Either because they did slightly horrible stuff and deserve NOT to succumb to sweet slumber for the rest of the entirety of their entire life…



…Or because they are revoltingly innocent little children with super cool, affectionate and not-so-imaginary friends who love to stay up and chat with them at night.





My my, Big Bad, what beautifully, healthy teeth you have! Mind having a word with Ms Flapper of the Dubious Dental Hygiene up there? Pretty sure she’d love to have your dentist’s number and stuff.

All in all, I think you could say that all the lovely stories in this collection are heart-warming tales of affection, kindness, good humor, warmth, conviviality and happiness. Ergo, the perfect Christmas gift. QED and stuff.