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The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen
3.0
ARC provided by the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
This book was just okay, and honestly pretty forgettable.
The story is about a girl named Alison who is put in charge of her school's adaptation of a Midsummer Night's Dream and like... everything goes wrong. Plus she has a crush on the cool girl at her school named Charlotte, who stars in the play.
This was a quick, easy, and cute YA story but I don't think it was anything special. I hate saying that because it was so clearly Canadian and I love when Canadian authors get their debut but I just really didn't vibe with this--but I didn't hate it. It was mostly just okay.
I thought the Shakespeare aspect was cute, but the conflicts in the story just seem so juvenile and silly that it seems fitting for a middle-grade novel and it made me think less of the main character. Plus, there wasn't anything that stood out about this book for me, it was just about a girl putting on a school play and having a crush. Also, all the characters fell a bit flat. They were so one-dimensional that I forgot who everyone was, and I still was confused by the end of the book.
Overall, I would recommend this if you want a quick, light read, but not if you want more depth in a story.
This book was just okay, and honestly pretty forgettable.
The story is about a girl named Alison who is put in charge of her school's adaptation of a Midsummer Night's Dream and like... everything goes wrong. Plus she has a crush on the cool girl at her school named Charlotte, who stars in the play.
This was a quick, easy, and cute YA story but I don't think it was anything special. I hate saying that because it was so clearly Canadian and I love when Canadian authors get their debut but I just really didn't vibe with this--but I didn't hate it. It was mostly just okay.
I thought the Shakespeare aspect was cute, but the conflicts in the story just seem so juvenile and silly that it seems fitting for a middle-grade novel and it made me think less of the main character. Plus, there wasn't anything that stood out about this book for me, it was just about a girl putting on a school play and having a crush. Also, all the characters fell a bit flat. They were so one-dimensional that I forgot who everyone was, and I still was confused by the end of the book.
Overall, I would recommend this if you want a quick, light read, but not if you want more depth in a story.