Reviews for Tales of the sacred and the supernatural

The average rating for Tales of the sacred and the supernatural based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-09-28 00:00:00 Stephen Karnes This is Lee showing her highest quality of narrative word-crafting. It's a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. We know (or suppose we do) how the story must go. If Lee steps outside Shakespeare's lines, then cry havoc and let slip the dogs of critics. But Lee is way ahead of the hounds. There is poetry in this re-telling; and sly humor, and outright beauty. We enjoy the enhancement of characters we've long seen on stage. Nothing here is false to the bard; each character is true to his stage counterpart. And yet... Lee gives us so much more in text, then William's poor players strutting their parts on the stage. "I die of a pox of houses." That's a line to make William laugh.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-23 00:00:00 Andy Williams It was obvious early on that this was a re-telling of Romeo and Juliet with the names changed and it started off promisingly. However, as I only know the play in general outline and the beginning/end, I wasn't aware until the scene arrived that a certain character is killed off quite early in the story. As this was my favourite character in the book, and the two leads are very bland, I lost interest and the rest of it dragged rather, despite the good writing style. There was also what I found a rather unnecessary pseudo-incest subplot between two villainous characters involving a reoccurrence of a motif often found in Lee and which I'm not keen on - the woman who "enjoys" male sexual violence. So overall, can only rate this an OK 2 stars because a 3 star on Goodreads would mean "I liked it" which sadly wasn't the case.