You know why this book didn't hit the right spot for me? It's because of the book blurb! It revealed the whole story, the saddest moment (which happened halfway through the book and fell flat because I knew it was coming). That's why I almost never read book blurbs, but what's done is done. Despite that, the book had some very intense moments, it deals with loss and grief and life in between. The writing is beautiful and you get into the atmosphere fast. The premise in itself (Shakespeare wrote Hamlet because of his grief about his son (I'm not spoiling anything it's in the effing blurb)) cannot be verified, but it's interesting to build a story on, and the writer enjoyed that freedom of imagination to write a whole book about it. Overall, highly enjoyable (and quite heartbreaking) !