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memeganne's review
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
1.0
I wanted this book to be good so bad, but the author just kept doing things that were bafflingly and also objectively just bad. Choosing to have Calibans inner narrative sound like Gollum was the first strike for me. Then choosing to have Miranda be 13 and Caliban be 17 (yes you read that right) when they begin to explore the physical side of their relationship is just disgusting. (Miranda being that young was a warning I didn’t see before I picked this up by the way). And before you come at me and say that’s an historically contemporary age gap from the world of Shakespeare, why is it the author felt she had the audacity to change the text from the “be not afeard, the isle is full of noises” monologue, arguably the best monologue in all of Shakespeare, but couldn’t make Miranda and caliban closer in age? Overall, this book just gave me the ick and made me mad. Would not recommend.
Content Warnings
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
Okay so caliban is 17 and she’s 13, which you don’t find out until like 3/4 of the way through the book by the way. So ‘technically’ he’s not an adult, but she’s young enough that this gives me the ick
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