A review by rbreade
Or What You Will by Jo Walton

If, from the title, you guessed this novel in some way concerns Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, give yourself a pat on the back. In fact, that play and The Tempest are here combined in a most delightful manner as the narrator--anonymous until almost the end, when "he" finally receives a name--contrives to find a way to save both himself--itself?--and its (his?) creator, the writer of Renaissance-inflected fantasies, Sylvia Harrison, who is dying. How they purport to do this is ingenious, and along the way we, the readers, are treated to Walton's lovely prose and some fascinating details about life in Renaissance Italy, ancient Rome, the process of writing, among other sundry delectamenta.