Review: An Imaginative & Engaging Novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 8, 2014
"In the Shadow of Shakespeare" is a spellbinding story that mixes history, mystery, drama, action and romance together to create a wonderfully imaginative novel. Ellen Wilson has a gift for writing that sucks you into the story, weaving a tale that feels both new and classic with a great deal of skill and a lot of passion. The writing is fresh, vivid, engaging, authentic in tone and straddles a fine line between a variety of genres... bringing this story to life in intriguing ways.The story centers around Alice Petrovka as she is pulled into a far reaching plot as past and present begins melding together, starting a chain of events that sends her rocketing to the past where the mystery begins to unfold and danger begins to lurk around every corner. Alice's adventure to the past and her quest in the present to uproot a centuries old mystery is one that I just couldn't help but be captivated by. This is the kind of novel that manages to be intriguing and inventive while entertaining the reader, making for a truly enjoyable and complex story that was well worth the read.