A review by vintagecassette
The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

2.0

I thought I’d be absolutely down for a queer retelling of Hamlet, but this book was something of a dumpster fire to me. Faye rewrites the ending in a way that is completely different from how Hamlet really concludes, and it just didn’t land the way she intended. Also, this book was marketed as a feminist retelling, but I’m not too sure what about (SPOILER:) Ophelia being an alcoholic who’s been dead for the entire novel struck Faye as a win for feminism.