Half Sick of Shadows by Laura Sebastian


Half Sick of Shadows is a feminist retelling of Arthurian Legend focused on Elaine, the Lady of Shalott. I really wanted to love this book, and it was good, but just good. The story switches tense abruptly between the present tense and the future tense when Elaine is seeing possible futures, and it made the story hard to follow at times. Its also sold as "The Lady of Shalott reclaiming her story", and I don't feel that it fully follows through.

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