A review by bookedbymadeline
Sycorax: a captivating reimagining of Shakespeare's most powerful witch by Nydia Hetherington

Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

I loved that this was dedicated to chronically ill and disabled spoonies! A Feminist Retelling of The Tempest, where we get to hear from Sycorax who in the play isn’t present except in reference, and is long dead at the time of the play.

I love retellings and wanted to love this but unfortunately I couldn’t finish the book. While the writing is beautiful, it’s very slow paced and I never felt engaged by the story or characters. The feminism aspects are very “feminism 101” which is fine but not groundbreaking or something that stuck out. And a nit picky moment was the author talking about a mountain lion, calling it a mountain lion, but then goes on to describe a lion 🙃 

There are many others who’ve loved the book so I’d recommend trying it and maybe it’ll be a better read for you!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quercus for the eARC