Rose & Poe

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the author, Jack Todd, and the publisher, ECW Press, for this opportunity. Set in the mythical Belle Coeur County, this is the tale of free-spirited Rose and her gentle giant of a son, Poe, who live a quiet and relatively s......more

Sweetness The blurb calls this a rewriting of The Tempest from the point of view of Caliban and his mother, but it would be easy to make too much of this. True, there is a grand old man, Prosper Thorne, exiled in a similar way to his near-namesake and also the possessor of a wondrous staff, but he is......more

Oh, my heart.  This story packs such an emotional punch!  The writing is simple and lovely – you will absolutely fall in love with both Rose and Poe. Poe immediately brought to mind Big John from The Green Mile, Lennie from Of Mice and Men, and a few shades of Charlie from Flowers for Algernon.  Ros......more

Having recently read Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood's contribution to the Hogarth contemporary takes on Shakespearean plays, I was somewhat reluctant to read this, however it is an entirely different approach to The Tempest. The titles refer to characters based on Caliban in the original and his relation......more

This glorious little book is the retelling of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest but you needn’t have read the play to understand the book or be touched by its beauty. Set in the mythical Belle Coeur County up alongside the Canadian border, independent orphan Rose becomes a pregnant teen and gives birth......more