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aschwartau 's review for:
The Death I Gave Him
by Em X. Liu
One of the most innovative and thrilling pieces of fiction I've read in the last few years! A queer, sci fi locked room mystery retelling of Hamlet with hauntingly beautiful prose. That pacing! That structure! That suspense and tension! I love a good retelling but only if it brings something new to the story and doesnt feel beholden to the source material, and this reinvented the story in thrilling ways staying true where it needed to and veering off course to satisfying ends. Hamlet is definitely not one of my favorite stories but HOLY MOLY did I devour this. I particularly loved the framing device of the story and the character of Horatio; not the first author to make me love an AI character but definitely one of the most unique manifestations.