while I could continue to rave about this work from writing to research, there were some things I didn’t love as much. Emilia’s chapters were super long…I feel they could’ve been effective broken up, but that’s personal preference. I’m not the biggest Shakespeare gal so the bits of poetry were more difficult to move through, but the connections to Emilia made it a lot more intriguing. 

I didn’t love how the Jasper side plot connected with the article of Melina’s problematic ask of Andre? I understand the motive and intended impact but idk I don’t think it needed to be elevated fo the level it was in the book. I suppose there needed to be something to “cancel” the play but it definitely took me out of the story. It was doing too much. Jasper and Melina were fun, andre and Melina arguing and Melina being called out was good, but we could’ve  gone without the whole article explosion was a lot.

Overall, this was so well done. Impressed as usual with Picoult but be prepared for some heavy shit…also as usual with Picoult :)