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Enter the Body by Joy McCullough
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes

Thank you Libro FM and Penguin Random House Audio for the gifted audiobook of Enter the Body!  All opinions in this review are my own.

I loved the concept of having Shakespeare's women redefine their stories and the audiobook format lends itself so well to Enter the Body.

I think you will enjoy Enter the Body more if you have a basic grasp of Shakespearean tragedies.  I know Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Titus Andronicus pretty well, but I am not as familiar with King Lear so Cordelia's story wasn't as easy to follow.

Overall, I enjoyed this story that wrote into the spaces of Shakespeare's tragic women after they disappear from the stage and the criticisms of his writings.