Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press and Wednesday Books for a copy of this book. All opinions in this review are my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am such a sucker for retellings, and retellings of Shakespeare are some of my favorites (outside of fairytales). The tagline for this book is “Forbidden magic, a family secret, and a night to reveal it all…<\/em>” and it seems like there are a few different reviews that state it is a reimagining of The Tempest<\/em>. While I am not as familiar with the ins and outs of Tempest<\/em>, from what I do know about it, this book does follow a lot of the beats really closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I did enjoy this book, but it was not, in my opinion, a happy book. I don’t consider Tempest<\/em> to be one of the tragedies, and I think it is classified as a romance? it was one of his comedies, but I have also seen it classified as a tragicomedy, but this book read as a complete tragedy to me. I don’t know if that is just what I consider to be tragic things, and not what the literary definition of tragedy is, but there was just sadness, and eventual death, this whole book. I kept waiting for some of the romance between some of the main characters but it just wasn’t happening. This was written incredibly well, filled with details & magic, really bringing you into the story, but there was just a lot of information all at once. This is stuffed with details so it can be hard to follow if you aren’t giving it 110% of your attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want a magical book that has Tempest<\/em> vibes, but are willing to have a sadder\/darker version, this is a fantastic book. If you want more of the romantic & magical vibes, I don’t know if this is quite it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press and Wednesday Books for a copy of this book. All opinions in this review are my own. I am such a sucker for retellings, and retellings of Shakespeare are some of my favorites (outside of fairytales). The tagline for this book is “Forbidden magic, a family secret, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[369,365,83,71,368,366,18,29,64,367,364,79,363,77,35],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastpagepromise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}