The Rest is Silence

In the end, we're all the same. We return to the dirt we came from, no matter if it was mud or gold.”

The Rest Is Silence is named after a Hamlet quote which should give you a pretty big clue as to which Shakespeare play is being queered up here, or alternatively, Chii Rempel really went “Hamlet, but make it gay.”

As this is essentially a queer inspired rehashing of Hamlet (with a gay Hamlet - called Xander - and a bi/queer/undefined Horatio - called Xavier) it is unfortunately subject to the bury your gays trope.

This is by no means a perfect book. It's absolutely rife with editing/SPAG issues, sometimes even the author gets confused between Xavier and Xander which really doesn't help the reader (surely they could've chosen names that weren't quite so similar) and in parts the story actually dragged a little BUT it was actually pretty cute, totally OTT/extra but in a fun way and was a mostly sweet, easy read (you know, apart from that ending).