A review by hummeline
Miranda and Caliban by Jacqueline Carey

4.0

I haven't read The Tempest in years, but decided to give this a go regardless. And what a ride this was—there's so much you can learn about the life of Prospero and Miranda before the opening of the play, but this takes every crumb and turns it into a riveting story of Miranda growing up. She—and Caliban too, and Ariel!—become complex people, with disparate wants and needs, and it all seems like a completely plausible prelude to the play itself. Rethinking things like what Caliban's relationship with the witch Sycorax is, about the manner of Prospero's departure, and what growing up on this island would be like with a domineering tyrant of a father / lord.