O, full of scorpions is my mind.

To attempt to summarize my thoughts on this story is not unlike attempting to bottle a storm, leaving me no choice but to let the tempest rage on. Which is to say, I've wrote out my thoughts in a word document and they're 8 pages, single-spaced.

When I first read this book, I immediately foresaw it being unbelievably polarizing, and with the responses emerging since ARCs have gone out, I’m not surprised to see that prophecy fulfilled.

I'm a long time super fan of Ava Reid's work, as many of you know. But as many of you don't, I'm also a rising Shakespeare scholar with a specific interest in Macbeth and its depicted relationship between magic and the marginalized. So suffice to say: I was greatly anticipating this story, and I have a LOT of opinions on it.

Unfortunately, they do NOT fit in the Goodreads character limit, so I've made my review publicly available on my Patreon ! (I promise I would just put my review here if it would fit, but it won't.) If you want to read my thoughts on Lady Macbeth, including but not limited to: its relationship to Shakespearean scholarship and how it compares to Shrek, now you can! Enjoy!

CW: rape, domestic abuse, murder, blood & gore, sexual content, torture, violence, war, suicidal thoughts, self-harm, lobotomy (on-page), child death, ableism, misogyny, infidelity, animal sacrifice, dissociation, pregnancy, poison, alcohol, emesis