by Jo Nesbo
Oh, I wanted to love this. I did. I truly did. But . . but.. Okay - I love the SWAT and drug use. The witches were cool in this. But I kept thinking Norway instead of Scotland which was weird, and then started wondering what Ian Rankin would have done. And then it was -so Macbeth and Lady ...
Jo Nesbo took on Maceth and set him in a law enforcement setting when men struggle to gain power through manipulation and even murder. It is so good. it almost read like a good theater play. Macbeth was SWAT leader. And there are drug lord who want him to be put into the position of police com...
Where to start… For those familiar with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Nesbo has stayed (largely) true. For those familiar with Nesbo, while this might be a re-telling of a classic, there is no missing his style. For those new to either – buckle in! This book fucked with my mind – more than a little. ...
Thanks to NetGalley and to Vintage Digital for providing me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. This book is part of the Hogarth’s Shakespeare project, a project designed to create novels based on some of Shakespeare’s original plays and bring them up-to-date thanks to best-selli...
When I was in high school, I was that weird girl in your english lit class who actually liked Shakespeare. The Hogarth Shakespeare project gave 8 authors a chance to recreate one of the Bard’s classic plays & when I heard Jo Nesbo was taking on MacBeth, I had to read it. And he’s done a remarkable j...
A Hogarth Shakespeare tragedyMs. Nesbo is the latest bestselling author to have been commissioned to retell a tragedy originally written by Shakespeare and to spin the tale in a modern way for the a 21st century audience, he chose Macbeth. “Macbeth “is a thriller about the struggle for power. In Mr....
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