A review by bowienerd_82
Or What You Will by Jo Walton

4.0

Strange, beautiful, clever, multi-layered, metatextual, and full of digressions on all sorts of interesting and wonderful things. It's an homage to Florence and the Renaissance, it's a sort of fantasy sequel to [b:Twelfth Night|1625|Twelfth Night|William Shakespeare|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1561384026l/1625._SY75_.jpg|3267921] and [b:The Tempest|12985|The Tempest|William Shakespeare|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546081115l/12985._SY75_.jpg|1359590], it's a book about writing and the creative process, it's a book about reading and loving books, it's a meditation on death and mortality.

This seems to be a book that most people either love or hate, based on the reviews I've seen. It's not a normal, linear story, and as above, it's got a lot going on, but I really enjoyed it, and it really made me want to back and visit Florence again.