To start off I did not know what made the reading an urban
fantasy and or mythic fiction. I ended up looking up the definitions. Urban fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy defined by
place, which is set in an entirely not real or true world in an urban setting. Mythic
fiction is literature that is rooted in, inspired by, or that in some
way draws from the tropes, themes and symbolism of myth, folklore, and fairy
tales. The two terms overlap with each other and are sometimes used
interchangeably, but mythic fiction also includes contemporary works in
non-urban settings.
This weeks reading I found it to be very odd and confusing
with some pretty elaborate scenarios. All the weird events and obstacles that
the main narrator has to go through starts off with someone dying and becoming
a ghost that tries to kill people. I found that part of the book to be
interesting. It made the story feel like its was going to be more normal
fantasy and nothing too weird will happen.
The story kind of turns weird at this point when the narrator
and his helper Lettie go to
find the spirit and bind it. Randomly a worm gets stuck in the narrator’s foot
and he pulls it out, but apiece is left inside him. Then later on you discover
that the worm is an actual person named Ursula Monkton. She used the narrator
to get out of the spirit dimension that him and Lettie where at. Ursula becomes
the nanny of the narrator and his sister. She quickly ingratiates herself with
his family, winning over his sister and seducing his father, while the narrator
is alienated from his family and is almost drowned in the bath by his father as
Ursula watches.
In reading this passage I found it to be really disturbing and
shocking. Even though it is a story it still strikes you in horrifying way. The
story gets worse as it goes along and if you like really weird stories then I
recommend reading this book, but if you don’t then it is not for you.
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