A retelling of Hamlet but told in modern times with the unborn Hamlet as the narrator. Trudy is late into her third term and her lover and husband's brother, Claude, has convinced her they must kill John, her husband, so they can sell the family house and live in luxury together after the baby is born and sent away. The baby describes all he hears and imagines he sees and tastes as the plot unfolds since he is privy to all their plans although powerless to do anything from inside the womb.
No, just absolutely freaking no! I tried to like this book, I really did but there could be no suspension of disbelief for me and as we got further into it the more I screamed and raged at it until the birth scene when I actively wanted to start throwing things, many things, all the things because it was so freaking ridiculous. I will grant that the prose is beautiful and would have been amazing from another narrator but as an unborn baby it just simply did not work for me in any way. Basic biology was completely against all of it and there was nothing to help me get past it. Would I read this author again? Maybe. It would really depend upon the subject and especially, the narrator.
Page count: 208p/2,654p ytd/277,129p lifetime
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