Characterisation: Appeasing My Feminist Desires This isn’t merely a Shakespearean fanfiction, it is an allegory for the darkness within humanity. All the black and white is replaced by varying shades of grey. Everything that made the story seem like a mere fairytale in the first book is explained and you start to realise that the world of the story is complex. It would be much more entertaining to read a plot summary.īut once the second book starts, you really start to get a feel for the world. I would honestly recommend skipping the first book altogether as it is a mere introduction into the world and only necessary if one is obsessed with knowing all the details of the story they are reading. Tropes that have been done again and again. The romance plot wasn’t particularly new: falling in love with someone who is of a different walk of life, love at first sight, unbreakable connection and one is manipulated to hurt another. Her characters are likable but nothing special. Starting off, the quality of the book (Wondrous Strange) is okay, barely managing to remain at the level required for Young Adult literature. Surrounded by creatures who physically cannot lie, she has never been more deceived. Pretty soon, everything she had known about her life is upturned for the grim reality of the world of fae. Seventeen-year-old Kelly Winslow is just trying to make her way into the world of theatre when she accidentally comes across the world of the fair folk. Lesley Livingston’s book series is a revision of Shakespeare’s world of fae with a modern twist.
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