bluestarfish 's review for:

The Dark Lady by Akala

3.0

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Reading is a magical power, and here even moreso. Henry is running around Elizabethan London picking pockets, getting into fights, and trying to exist in a world where places are nice if you're rich and really, really hard when you're poor. One inspiration for this work is Shakespeare's Dark Lady series of sonnets, which is such an interesting jumping off point for the novel.