Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle
Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle
Review of Kissing Shakespeare
Title & Author:
Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle
Publisher:
Random House
Publication Date:
August 14, 2012
Pages:
310
Source:
NetGalley via PublisherA romantic time travel story that’s ideal for fans of novels by Meg Cabot and Donna Jo Napoli–and, of course, Shakespeare.
Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood: she hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents. At least, she does until her disastrous performance in her school’s staging of The Taming of the Shrew. Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening-night party. All she wants to do is hide.
Fellow cast member, Stephen Langford, has other plans for Miranda. When he steps out of the backstage shadows and asks if she’d like to meet Shakespeare, Miranda thinks he’s a total nutcase. But before she can object, Stephen whisks her back to 16th century England—the world Stephen’s really from. He wants Miranda to use her acting talents and modern-day charms on the young Will Shakespeare. Without her help, Stephen claims, the world will lost its greatest playwright.
Miranda isn’t convinced she’s the girl for the job. Why would Shakespeare care about her? And just who is this infuriating time traveler, Stephen Langford? Reluctantly, she agrees to help, knowing that it’s her only chance of getting back to the present and her “real” life. What Miranda doesn’t bargain for is finding true love . . . with no acting required. – Goodreads
Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle has an awesome premise and was a pretty entertaining story overall, despite some initial problems that put me off the story.
Kissing Shakespeare asked me to suspend my disbelief in a major way and I had a little bit of trouble doing that. I mean, this weird guy is like hey, come up to the roof with me and go back in time and seduce William Shakespeare. I just couldn’t let go of my disbelief and it kind of ruined Kissing Shakespeare for me at first.
But I definitely got Kissing Shakespeare more as the story went on and I enjoyed it a lot. I loved Pamela Mingle’s descriptions of Shakespearean England – I’m a big period movie fan, so I loved that aspect of Kissing Shakespeare.
Another aspect of Kissing Shakespeare that I really enjoyed was that there was not a huge focus on the romance. I mean, it was always there, but the plot was still the main focus of Kissing Shakespeare, which I enjoyed.
I feel like Kissing Shakespeare is one of those books where if I look too closely, it would ruin some elements of the story for me. But just based on how I felt while reading Kissing Shakespeare, and when I closed the book, I really enjoyed the story and the descriptions.
If you’re looking for a fun story that takes you back in time with beautiful descriptions, definitely do give Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle a chance.
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Oh yeah, the weird premises always make me reluctant when reading a book, it’s good though when you are able to get past the odd bits.
I do enjoy fun reads though!
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This does sound like a fun read, though I’m definitely glad for the warning about the premise!
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I keep going back and forth on this one. I want to read it, I don’t want to read it, etc. I don’t USUALLY have trouble suspending my beliefs, even if it is quite bit. This may be a library loan for me. BUT…the cover is so beautiful!
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I kind of had trouble “believing” this one as well. I mean, Miranda didn’t even have that much of a reaction when they went back in time. If it were me, I would be cursing or like… wtf? for most of it. I’ll admit I had a lot of trouble with it in the beginning but I got really caught up in the story and think it really went above and beyond that Goodreads description. I hope people decide to give it a try.
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I agree – this does sound like it has the potential to be a really interesting book. I love period stuff, especially English history. But there are also weird questions I have even before starting to read this book. Like Shakespeare married really young at age 18. So I wonder if this protagonist is seducing a married or engaged man. Also the title totally makes it sound like a fluffy romance. It does sound like an interesting idea though so maybe I’ll see if it’s at my library.
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I had no idea what this was about until today when I saw someone’s mailbox post. It sounds so interesting though, I adore Shakespeare and I don’t see very much in the way of fiction about him (instead of his plays). Though I agree with you, I’ll probably have to suspend what I know about him in order to fully enjoy it.
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