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cleoharper's review against another edition
3.0
What more could anyone want than a story about a serial killer and Shakespeare? Super cool concept, and I loved the amount of detail and history the author put into this story! I figured out the murderer early on but still very much enjoyed it.
sianw1992's review against another edition
4.0
I was recommended this book by an absolute avid fan of Shakespeare and as a lover myself I welcomed this book with open arms. I really enjoyed it, I liked the twist put onto murder scenes, and I enjoyed the suspense and thriller aspects. This book is what I call a guilty pleasure book, in that in places it's a little bit cheesy, but overall, it's something to keep you thoroughly entertained!
kmthomas06's review against another edition
3.0
Decent read; fairly typical of this sort of book - lots of cool Shakespeare trivia though and a passable enough heroine who wasn't a complete idiot (although...sigh, it's so easy to know now in this type of book who the "bad" allies are that it is painful when the heroine doesn't figure it out until too late).
lilylanie's review against another edition
4.0
I LOVED this book! Once again, my favourite combination of history, mystery and books.
Interred With Their Bones is a mystery involving a lost Shakespeare play entitled Cardenio (which really is a lost play). It delves into the debate about who wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare (though, thankfully, stops short of attempting a definitive answer), and travels back and forth in time between the early 1600s when the play was written and modern day when clues to the play's whereabouts are being followed and those who get too close are dropping dead. A little romance doesn't hurt either.
This is one of those books that was so richly detailed that I really would like to read it again to discover what I didn't pick up on the first time around, but there are just too many other books on my shelf calling out to be read.
Interred With Their Bones is a mystery involving a lost Shakespeare play entitled Cardenio (which really is a lost play). It delves into the debate about who wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare (though, thankfully, stops short of attempting a definitive answer), and travels back and forth in time between the early 1600s when the play was written and modern day when clues to the play's whereabouts are being followed and those who get too close are dropping dead. A little romance doesn't hurt either.
This is one of those books that was so richly detailed that I really would like to read it again to discover what I didn't pick up on the first time around, but there are just too many other books on my shelf calling out to be read.
techknitly's review
4.0
At times this book reminded me of The Da Vinci Code but it periodically fell flat. Great, intricate build ups to some awesome reveal that was just kind of confusing.
novelette's review against another edition
2.0
I actually considered studying Shakespeare in college, so I thought this would be interesting. Yeah... Hark, what yawn doth comth? Tis this book, annoyingly complicated for little pay off.
willbefunorelse's review against another edition
3.0
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melissa_who_reads's review against another edition
4.0
Really enjoyed this book: enjoyed the Shakespeare scholarship along with the fast paced thriller aspect. The body count is pretty high in this story, and all over a few letters and a manuscript of one of Shakespeare's lost plays. The question of the identity of the author of Shakespeare's plays is addressed but not solved -- and the romp through Shakespeare scholarship and history is quite as much fun as the modern-day mystery.
Could tell when the next body was due, and really thought some of the bodies were utterly gratuitous, but the end was satisfying.
Could tell when the next body was due, and really thought some of the bodies were utterly gratuitous, but the end was satisfying.
katiebtatton's review against another edition
2.0
A Shakespeare scholar turned director races down a path hoping to find a missing play written by the great master. But everywhere she stops, innocent people turn up dead.
The writing has potential, the story was interesting, but the melding of the two didn’t grab me like the Dan Brown twists on history.
The writing has potential, the story was interesting, but the melding of the two didn’t grab me like the Dan Brown twists on history.