Honestly, if she had come out and said that this was intentionally her re-imagining of Hamlet, it still wouldn’t be the worst one I’ve read. There’s one book where Ophelia, after the events of the play, gives birth to Hamlet’s baby and then many years later falls in love with Horatio. Falling in love with Travis Kelce is not the most unreasonable suggestion for what could happen to Ophelia.

It took me a good bit to get into this book, but I did grow to enjoy it. There were times that I found it quite tedious, but on the whole I liked the story. I do think that you must like the original play as a prerequisite to this book, though; it stands strongly as a prequel but not very well on its own.

You're not going to believe me, but I did like the story beats of this book. It certainly made me want to try biang biang noodles. But I was overall unimpressed with the writing and the implementations of the central allegory.

As much as I like having one song based on Hamlet, that's not enough for me. I want a million songs based on Hamlet. I want 12, at least. So, what if "The Fate of Ophelia" wasn't the only song about my favorite play? What if all of them were?

All of the big questions that I left Fourth Wing with got replaced with just one: What happened?

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