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A review by michelle_leitheoir
License to Quill by Jacopo della Quercia
5.0
This book is for everyone who ever said, "You know what William Shakespeare needs more of? Explosions. Explosions and James Bond-esque action."
We had good old Will Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe serving as agents for the Ordnance Office - or "Double-O," thus making them Double-O operatives - thwarting the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot. We had Thomas Walsingham as an M-like spymaster. We had Francis Bacon providing our brave hero with all kinds of gadgets, a la Q. Even the horses were named after British cars, with Shakespeare's shiny silver mount named Aston.
Plenty of humor, plenty of action, some very Shakespearean tragedy, and believe it or not, the author even takes a break every so often to teach REAL history. I just enjoyed this book SO MUCH. If nothing else, it's just fun to play "spot the James Bond reference" while reading this book! I definitely recommend this for anyone who has a sense of humor and likes spy thrillers and geeking out over Shakespeare and English history.
We had good old Will Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe serving as agents for the Ordnance Office - or "Double-O," thus making them Double-O operatives - thwarting the Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot. We had Thomas Walsingham as an M-like spymaster. We had Francis Bacon providing our brave hero with all kinds of gadgets, a la Q. Even the horses were named after British cars, with Shakespeare's shiny silver mount named Aston.
Plenty of humor, plenty of action, some very Shakespearean tragedy, and believe it or not, the author even takes a break every so often to teach REAL history. I just enjoyed this book SO MUCH. If nothing else, it's just fun to play "spot the James Bond reference" while reading this book! I definitely recommend this for anyone who has a sense of humor and likes spy thrillers and geeking out over Shakespeare and English history.