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Title: Not So Ophelia
Review: I'm a fan of the original work (you know, Hamlet), as well as a consistent reader of any sort of updated fairy tale young adult novels (despite my growing age), but I was bored within the first three pages of this one and stopped reading after I hit around page twenty. For the first time in years I skipped ahead to the ending and was glad that I did so, to spare me the trouble of reading the middle. I won't ruin any of the few details, but in the author's blurb it claims that she was never satisfied with the original handling of female characters like Ophelia. Having written several term papers on various Shakesperian plays, I feel confident when I say that re-imagining the life of Ophelia, a character as fascinating as she is complex and tragic, is really unnecessary. Instead, stick with Roselind, Romeo's Ex, a book that works with the original story instead of against it.
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