A Midsummer Tempest

I didn't like this book. The concept is great, an alternate Reformation era where Shakespeare was an historian and all the stories of magic and faeries are real. Unfortunately, the author not only uses 17^th century words and sentence structure, but spells out the accents. It makes for extremely tedious reading. And it seems like the character with the toughest accent speaks the most. It cut my reading speed down by over a half and reduced my comprehension as well. This book won the Mythopoeic Award in 1975 and was nominated for a few others. If I wasn't committed to reading all the Mythopoeic winners, this would have been a DNF.

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