Amanda
A retelling of Hamlet set at a magic school.
A Dark Academic retelling of Hamlet strikes me as completely appropriate; even a fantasy one seems right—the original has a ghost, after all. Unfortunately, Thoughts Be Bloody misses the mark: it reads more like a knockoff of The Magicians with a Hamlet veneer.
Thoughts Be Bloody is also wordy as all get out, which, to be fair, can also be said of the original, but at least the original has some sublime blank verse going for it.
So, high marks for the premise, but low marks for the execution.
Received via NetGalley.
A retelling of Hamlet set at a magic school.
A Dark Academic retelling of Hamlet strikes me as completely appropriate; even a fantasy one seems right—the original has a ghost, after all. Unfortunately, Thoughts Be Bloody misses the mark: it reads more like a knockoff of The Magicians with a Hamlet veneer.
Thoughts Be Bloody is also wordy as all get out, which, to be fair, can also be said of the original, but at least the original has some sublime blank verse going for it.
So, high marks for the premise, but low marks for the execution.
Received via NetGalley.