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A review by ronitamohan_louisskye
Macbeth by Jo Nesbø
3.0
This book came highly recommended from everyone I knew and I do love modern interpretations of Shakespeare.
I liked the police station setting for the story and how the backgrounds of the characters were fleshed out. But I didn't like MacDuff at all. He's a slimy, uncouth, cheating weasel so why is he the big hero here? He was so awful that I just couldn't become invested in his fight to save the city. When your hero is worse than the villain, you've lost me.
Macbeth is far more horrible here than I would have expected-he murders without care and is completely selfish.
Lady Macbeth is kinda cool-she owns a casino and is doing well for herself. But then the writer gives her the typical edgy background that men love writing for women-she was abused as a child and had a child who died so now she's unhinged. Because how else can one make a female character interesting, right?
Aside from Lady, there's only one other major female character but she barely has a couple of scenes that don't have to do with mooning over Duff. Ugh.
This book was supposed to be a modern take but it had the sensibilities of Shakespeare's time, which took me out of the reading experience.
The story was fine but the characters were the absolute worst.
I liked the police station setting for the story and how the backgrounds of the characters were fleshed out. But I didn't like MacDuff at all. He's a slimy, uncouth, cheating weasel so why is he the big hero here? He was so awful that I just couldn't become invested in his fight to save the city. When your hero is worse than the villain, you've lost me.
Macbeth is far more horrible here than I would have expected-he murders without care and is completely selfish.
Lady Macbeth is kinda cool-she owns a casino and is doing well for herself. But then the writer gives her the typical edgy background that men love writing for women-she was abused as a child and had a child who died so now she's unhinged. Because how else can one make a female character interesting, right?
Aside from Lady, there's only one other major female character but she barely has a couple of scenes that don't have to do with mooning over Duff. Ugh.
This book was supposed to be a modern take but it had the sensibilities of Shakespeare's time, which took me out of the reading experience.
The story was fine but the characters were the absolute worst.