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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Dunbar had the opportunity to turn a dense Shakespeare into something emotional - but it barely made it there. I was not as invested as I wanted to be in the characters, and mostly they felt distanced. I’d say cold, but even the cold-hearted characters felt a bit dull. This book is incredibly smart, and does tell the story of King Lear in a creative way. Very much like Shakespeare, I think I would have rather watched this rendition, rather than read it.
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Thank you so much to @crownpublishing for a free, advanced reading copy of Dunbar-part of the Hogarth Project.
As a HUGE Shakespeare fan, I jumped at the chance to get this book. It’s a retelling of one of my favorite plays, King Lear. You might have seen Hagseed by Margaret Atwood? That book is a part of this project too and was a retelling of Shakespeare’s the Tempest.
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.”
–King Lear
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