As I've come to expect things never run smoothly and Corbett quickly finds himself in hot water as he and his crew are left stranded on the beautiful Island of Golgotha, where he quickly becomes embroiled in a mystery that looks to have every inhabitant in its grip. The style of language adopted to tell this story is perfectly suited to the period it takes place in and there is some fantastic dialogue.

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The Blade was shattered in the fight, however - blasting Jerro himself into the Hells - and one shard was embedded in the chest of the infant who would grow to bring about the King's final destruction. They intend on reenacting A Midsummer's Night's Dream and Julius Caesar in London, at the re-built Globe theatre, just as they had done in Shakespeare's time. All the World's a Page 2020: Read a book featuring Shakespeare as a character OR a book set during his lifetime. I guess if it has to be explained… ) Also, early in the story the title is explained: Memory is the King of Shadows because it depends so much on perspective, desire, emotion, and distance. At the end of the play, the Queen comes to meet all of the players and invites them to perform at her palace the following month.

It would make a great companion piece to Atwood's Hagseed if you wanted to study modern thoughts around Shakespeare plays!

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It’s why Sonnet 116 is key; its “ever-fixèd mark” is the beacon that ensures the sailing ship reaches safety in its haven, whatever the tempest throws at it, a symbol of the parental love that remains steadfast forever. Even after the goddess had been resurrected as Mystra, the King was unable to draw upon his old power. Once this has been cured (just long enough into the novel for the original Nat to become emotionally attached to Shakespeare) the two lads are shunted through time again to their own centuries where Nat struggles to acclimatise to his surroundings and misses Shakespeare desperately. Her Boggart titles have won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Smarties Prize.Gradually—too gradually, as the author strings out hundreds of pages of Hogwarts-style pranks, classroom mishaps and competitions both academic and romantic—it becomes clear that the placement wasn’t a mistake at all. There are a few more twists and turns in the story which would be remiss of me to reveal, but hero-worship of a father figure and hopes that such fondness is reciprocated are at its core.

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But I feel like we are getting back to seeing the Corbett from those early novels within The King of Shadows. By that time, Susan Cooper had been living in America for 13 years, having moved to marry her first husband, an American professor, and was stepmother to three children and the mother of two.At this point, readers are likely to feel suddenly left behind, as, thanks to summary deus ex machina resolutions, everything turns out swell(ish). Nat doesn't look "cool" enough and he doesn't look intrigued; Cover-Nat looks like he's annoyed to be in the book. Fiction – and especially fantasy – for children and young adults is often disparaged by a certain class of critic (who should know better) as being light, frivolous or somehow lacking in serious intent or, worse, literary worth.