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I truly **loved** this quirky, beguiling, wonderful book!

If you think an ordinary sophomore year in high school is hard, try adding a disastrous theater production, losing your best friend, and some accidental time travel into the mix. And Shakespeare. As in, the real Shakespeare, the guy with the goatee and the quill pen and the frilly shirt, walking around in Elizabethan England at the Globe Theater, where you also happen to unexpectedly find yourself.

Put it all together, and Drama Club techie Emma Allen's got a massive problem. But she's not the only one! Everyone in the modern production of "Hamlet" at her high school has issues that seem insurmountable...but the key to at least some of them may lie in the Shakespearean past, or even in the lessons of the play itself.

Author Molly Booth's celebration of friendship, love, drama and coming-of-age is at times a hilarious romp...but it's also a sensitive exploration of how to accept who you really are, in spite of the troubles and misunderstandings of people around you. She weaves parallels between the modern journey of Emma and her friends, with the age-old tale of Hamlet and his perilous, doomed passage into troubled manhood, with a very light --but sure-- touch.

I found myself tense with anticipation over the question of how Emma and her friends could possibly sort it all out. But here's a promise: no one dies at the tip of a poisoned sword at the end.

And to complete my reading joy, Booth's deadpan humor was always waiting in the wings to make me snort-laugh on almost every page.

Highly recommended!


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Saving Hamlet Molly Booth 9781484752746 Books Reviews

What a great story for young adults and regular adults alike! The main characters are endearing and authentic, and the story is just unpredictable enough to keep you guessing and avoid the YA tropes that seem to be in every book these days. Molly Booth writes high schoolers with affection and humor, and really captures the theater-kid experience. Loved it!
Teenaged daughter enjoys the story... and she claims to not like books!
This is a really fun read - I finished it in one sitting. Probably most enjoyable if you are familiar with the actual play Hamlet.
This book was so amazing and honestly gave me a new found love for Shakespeare even though I have always loved Shakespeare. This just made me remember that, my love for his work had sadly been collecting some dust, but this made it so much better. So happy I hot to enjoy this book as much as the author must have enjoyed writing it!
Such a great read. It made me cringe a lot, but only because I felt so deeply for Emma that her embarrassments were my own. This was clearly well researched and lovingly crafted - the characters are all engaging, the settings are perfectly laid out (you can't not love the descriptions of the Globe!), and the pacing feels spot on. I can honestly say that I both laughed out loud and actually cried reading this, that's how invested I was. I so hope there will be a sequel!!
I was introduced to this book by the author who was a guest on the Folger podcast. Her description was intriguing and as a long time Shakespeare addict, I thought it might be entertaining. What an understatement. This is a marvelous introduction to the process of presenting a play, both now and in Shakespeare's time. The fact that it is Hamlet in both our time and 1599 makes it even more fascinating. I read this from beginning to end in one sitting, unable to put it down. And, I just bought two more copies to give to friends. If you love stories about Shakespeare the man and his time, you will enjoy this book.
I Love This Book, and I have only observed theater as an audience member. Despite this, I was able to follow all the theater lingo involved in running a show and found it utterly fascinating. Emma is an engrossing protagonist and I was hooked on her story. There are many references to events happening a year before the book begins, and they read like there's an invisible footnote "And you would know all about this, dear reader, if you read my previous book," but there is no previous book. I paused in my reading to look up the author's other work and this is her only book so far. As the story progresses, we are granted full details about these events that had such an impact on Emma, and I honestly wish for a prequel, a sequel, or both. Anything to continue our time with our lovely protagonist and the many characters that surround her.
I truly **loved** this quirky, beguiling, wonderful book!

If you think an ordinary sophomore year in high school is hard, try adding a disastrous theater production, losing your best friend, and some accidental time travel into the mix. And Shakespeare. As in, the real Shakespeare, the guy with the goatee and the quill pen and the frilly shirt, walking around in Elizabethan England at the Globe Theater, where you also happen to unexpectedly find yourself.

Put it all together, and Drama Club techie Emma Allen's got a massive problem. But she's not the only one! Everyone in the modern production of "Hamlet" at her high school has issues that seem insurmountable...but the key to at least some of them may lie in the Shakespearean past, or even in the lessons of the play itself.

Author Molly Booth's celebration of friendship, love, drama and coming-of-age is at times a hilarious romp...but it's also a sensitive exploration of how to accept who you really are, in spite of the troubles and misunderstandings of people around you. She weaves parallels between the modern journey of Emma and her friends, with the age-old tale of Hamlet and his perilous, doomed passage into troubled manhood, with a very light --but sure-- touch.

I found myself tense with anticipation over the question of how Emma and her friends could possibly sort it all out. But here's a promise no one dies at the tip of a poisoned sword at the end.

And to complete my reading joy, Booth's deadpan humor was always waiting in the wings to make me snort-laugh on almost every page.

Highly recommended!