This was a very interesting take on Shakespeare and I liked the feminist explorations of some key female characters who didn’t get their due in their stories. I did find the first half of the book to be a bit slow for me, I liked the second half a lot better, but I didn’t love the dialogue pieces as much as the story by poetry. In the second half of the book Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia all get to retell their story with taking control and making some changers and that was super interesting. I liked Cordelia’s the most which was interesting since it was the story I knew least well overall. I don’t always like stories told in poetry, but I think Joy McCullough has a great poetic voice and I definitely thought it was the right way to tell these versions of these stories. Overall I gave this one 3.5 stars which I rounded up for the creative take on retelling some classic stories.