Thank you to Netgalley and Wednesday Books for my copy of Foul Is Fair in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are mine and mine alone.
This is a retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Guess what…I didn’t like studying Macbeth in high school and I didn’t care for this novel. I won’t sugar coat it, I just found it a little extreme and unbelievable for me.
If you like violent, bloody, and dark, revengeful reads…oh, you’ll LOVE this book. I felt it was a little far fetched for kids in high school. The premise is Elle goes to a party and gets raped. She takes revenge on the group of kids that raped her with the help of her coven. She tells her parents in a roundabout way that she’s going to kill the boys and they tell her she needs to do what she needs to do…what?
Elle transfers to their school and manipulates the group of friends to turn on each other and murder one another. It is a crazy, wild ride…just not for me. It was not a badly written book…it has a different writing style…I just did not care for the content.
Elle’s coven is a loyal group of friends who when she says jump, they say how high. This book certainly was unique and I have not read anything like it…again, there is a lot of blood, murder, and violence in this one. It is crazy how person can infiltrate a group of GOOD friends and turn their world upside down.
3 stars. I know there are many of you out there that would LOVE this book. I am not in the book’s target demographic. If the description of the book appeals to you, pick it up…if you’re like me and maybe on the fence or thinking it isn’t for it…pass it up. You can tell as soon as you start reading this one if the plot and style of writing is for you!
Title: Foul Is Fair
Author: Hannah Campin
Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult, Retelling
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Release Date: February 18, 2020
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