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renatasnacks 's review for:
Alex & Eliza
by Melissa de la Cruz
http://www.frowl.org/worstbestsellers/episode-85-alex-eliza/
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This book is so strange because it's essentially being marketed as, and based on the author's note, seems to have been written as, fanfiction of Hamilton the musical. But it doesn't really capture what people like about Hamilton? Like the character dynamics all seem very different. Which is fine theoretically--they're historical figures being recreated based on letters and books, and obviously there are going to be different takes on that...but I wasn't especially interested in these versions of the characters. There's a definite odd interplay of putting ~modern values~ onto the characters but without quite fully contextualizing some of their actions? (Which is something I think Hamilton the musical does well.)
And then the plot was....well, like, there's a scene where Eliza gives Alex a smallpox inoculation, and it's like, kind of erotically charged? And there's like...so much smallpox in this book. Why. Why is it. And like...they famously wrote each other all these letters? Why is there no letter writing in this book??
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This book is so strange because it's essentially being marketed as, and based on the author's note, seems to have been written as, fanfiction of Hamilton the musical. But it doesn't really capture what people like about Hamilton? Like the character dynamics all seem very different. Which is fine theoretically--they're historical figures being recreated based on letters and books, and obviously there are going to be different takes on that...but I wasn't especially interested in these versions of the characters. There's a definite odd interplay of putting ~modern values~ onto the characters but without quite fully contextualizing some of their actions? (Which is something I think Hamilton the musical does well.)
And then the plot was....well, like, there's a scene where Eliza gives Alex a smallpox inoculation, and it's like, kind of erotically charged? And there's like...so much smallpox in this book. Why. Why is it. And like...they famously wrote each other all these letters? Why is there no letter writing in this book??