The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts

hmmm I respect the IDEA of wanting to depict Constance Wilde/Holland's rich inner life as a human aside from Oscar but I also feel like this didn't really....do that....

I feel like maybe it should have shown more of her pre-Oscar life or something IDK. Like it hints at her feminist work but doesn't go into it? Maybe it assumes that the reader has more knowledge of her life than I do. But I think like...that most people don't know a lot about her which is sort of why this book sounded intriguing??

And I didn't really love the five act structure. IDK I think this book spread itself too thin. I think I'd be better served by reading a good biography.

I did like everyone's very bitchy dare I say Wilde-ian dialogue though.