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I really enjoyed this book, although there were some aspects that could have been done better. The background, the story, Shakespeare, and the dark academia were really good, but the characters felt too much like, well, characters. Some of their reactions and behaviours didn't make sense - particularly for the tragic events that pepper through the story, and inevitably, it removes the reader from truly believing into the story. Why would they not try to save Richard when they saw he was still alive? If they decided to share in the choice and guilt of letting him die, why was it not more explored further on? Why did Oliver decide to claim guilt, just out of love for James? His suicide was also so lightly mentioned, like an afternote at the end of the story...

There were some lovely quotes, from the author, not just Shakespeare.

My biggest grievance is that I had hoped that the characters and the Shakespearean characters they played had been more entertwined, that it would have become at some point impossible to tell apart who was the character and who was the character they were playing, but in the end it was a tragedy of their own making.