Kissing Shakespeare
by Pamela Mingle
2 stars
352 pages
Published
Aug. 14, 2012
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
I was bugged, like others, that the vast majority of the book was focused on how the main character - Olivia/Miranda - needed to "bed" Shakespeare as the only possible way for him to avoid joining the Jesuit brotherhood and thus never writing his plays.
The book reads like there was no way Shakespeare could make up his own mind without the sex. All that work-up and stress was allayed with one sentence towards the end of the book. Nothing had needed to be done by the main character. This really negated the whole purpose of the book - changing Shakespeare's mind, when in one sentence, he did it himself with no help from Olivia.
Lame.
The only reason I give this two stars is because of Olivia's decision regarding whether or not to jump in the sack with Shakespeare.
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