A review by codalion
The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle

1.0

First, a pox on Shakespeare in Love, I blame that film for the endless and tiresome Elizabethan-novel tropes that keep popping up in historical fiction set in the period. :P I could've forgiven the plot issues -- first novel, after all -- if not for my total lack of sympathy (and minor resentment, due to the book's accidental heteronormativity masquerading as queer representation) for Mal Catlyn and Coby Hendricks. Would have been a better book had it been about Ned Faulkner and Gabriel Parrish.