Review: Great retelling of a classic.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
Thank you to the author for the review copy.In this Young Adult retelling of one of William Shakespeare’s most memorable plays, join C.E. Wilson as she breathes new life into Othello, the second book in her series Shakespeare for Everyone Else.When Archer decides that he’s had enough of Orion and Devony running what he thought was going to be his school he takes desperate measures to ruin everything. Through lies and betrayal, deceit and deception, Archer will stop at nothing to get what he wants, and he doesn’t care whose lives he has to destroy in the process.So a great idea this, the author takes Othello, brings it bang up to date, gives it a thoroughly modern twist but keeps all the heart of the original right on in there. A difficult one to pull off but done in a great way here.I’m actually a big fan of Shakespeare’s stories but I do struggle with the language, beautiful as it is and I love what the author has done here – given it a whole new twist and still giving the nuances and discussion points that make Shakespeare such a great teaching tool.Add to that its fun! A good story well told for the Young Adult audience, I imagine that a great thing to do would be to read the original and then read this – in fact it did encourage me to re-visit the base material. I know that there are more in this series available already and coming soon – personally I want to see what happens to Romeo And Juliet.All in all a terrific read, a great Sunday Afternoon spent and I will definitely read more. Recommended.Happy Reading Folks!