Member Review

I was thrilled to get an advance review copy of this book (thanks #netgalley) after hearing good things about it.
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Oh, it was brilliant. I was bereft when I finished it. Basically it’s a Hamlet re-telling, set in ‘Elsinore Labs’ where research is being conducted into immortality. People are being killed for access to the research and the lab has been locked down. It’s completely gripping. Also terrifying, and claustrophobic, even though you know from the start that it’s not going to end as badly as it might.
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The Ophelia character, Felicia (spoiler alert) has agency, isn’t a victim, doesn’t drown. Which is refreshing. The Horatio character is an AI who loves and looks after the Hamlet character. We get a lot of blood and guts and other bodily mess (it is a murder mystery) but also close detail of heart rate, temperature etc as Horatio pays careful attention.
Loved it.
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