I have to admit I’m torn about this book. The first couple of chapters, I wasn’t really a fan, then I started really enjoying it. Now having finished and letting it all sink in, I’m back to poking large holes in it. Lady Macbeth (claims) to tell the feminist reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, told from the perspective of the aforementioned Lady Macbeth. Only instead of the forty-something woman named Gruoch pushing Macbeth towards power for herself as well as him, we have Roscille, the seventeen […]
“This is a man’s first, last, and greatest fear: a world that exists empty of him.”
Lady Macbeth: A Novel by Ava Reid
