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A review by silkquake
The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu
4.5
Going into this book, I wasn't aware of just how HAMLET it would be. I've read/watched many modern takes on classics but I just wasn't expecting how much this book would simply just BE Hamlet. As someone who wishes that they were more familiar with Shakespeare than they are, The Death I Gave Him really breathed new life into the original play for me. The way it engages with the original text... It's one of those books that I would love to sit with and analyze a lot more closely.
The book also succeeded at being unsettling at all the right moments, thanks to the excellent prose, and manages to maintain the tension even though we all know how it (mostly) plays out-- it's just an all-around delicious tragedy.
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The book also succeeded at being unsettling at all the right moments, thanks to the excellent prose, and manages to maintain the tension even though we all know how it (mostly) plays out-- it's just an all-around delicious tragedy.