Maybe my expectations were too high, but I thought this was good - not great. It was a bit overwritten and full of purple prose. At the beginning, I was really interested in the characters, especially Agnes and Hamnet, but some of the magic was lost as I kept reading. We were too much at a distance for too much of the story. I thought some of the choices were interesting (in the passive aggressive way) like making Agnes a witchy-type character, having her go to London to watch the play, or the chapter about the flea. And maybe I missed it, but I was also waiting for the cut above Hamnet's eye to have some sort of payoff, and that never came back around! I'm glad I picked it up, but it wasn't what I was hoping for.