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A review by starzyrose
The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen
2.0
In 'The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life', a lesbian teen ends up in charge of the school play while also trying to navigate exploring love for the first time.
Queer stories, especially those for young people, are really important but this just wasn't it for me.
This book read very young and characters often seemed much younger than they were.
We never learnt very much about characters outside of stereotypes and that they were all involved in this play which left them feeling very flat and uninteresting.
I was often frustrated by easily avoided conflicts.
Some readers, especially young ones, may not notice or be bothered by some of these elements and maybe they could enjoy it for a simple queer contemporary, but I struggled to get through it.
Queer stories, especially those for young people, are really important but this just wasn't it for me.
This book read very young and characters often seemed much younger than they were.
We never learnt very much about characters outside of stereotypes and that they were all involved in this play which left them feeling very flat and uninteresting.
I was often frustrated by easily avoided conflicts.
Some readers, especially young ones, may not notice or be bothered by some of these elements and maybe they could enjoy it for a simple queer contemporary, but I struggled to get through it.