A review by applegould
The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu

2.0

sometimes when I read a retelling i am so excited about it because what is the author going to do? what is going to happen! it feels like reading a whole new work of fiction. this felt like horatio/hamelt AI fanfiction that was so predictable and boring I can't believe I finished it. seriously, what the fuck was up with

hayden (hamlet) and horatio mind fucking? completely irrelevant to the plot the first time it happened and like. why are y'all fucking in this situation what the fuck?

it was billed as lgbt and just really wasn't, sorry. an AI identifying as male does not make an lgbt book! I'm going to rewatch the Lion King because at least that has ghosts.