Book Nouveau Review of The Isle of Sound and Wonder

Here’s a video review of Alyson Grauer’s On the Isle of Sound and Wonder.

It’s due for a Nov 21st release, but if you’re going to Teslacon you can purchase a copy from the author herself.

Alyson Grauer’s On the Isle of Sound and Wonder is a Shakespearean Fantasy Steampunk book based on an adaptation of one of my favorite works. I didn’t realize it at first because I’m a terrible book blogger with an enormous backlist, and it took me far too long to get around to reading it. Embarassingly I was almost to the end of the first act before I twigged to the fact that it was an adaptation.

And that’s a good thing. It’s not a straight-up stage-to-prose conversion. Alyson is more skilled than that. She preserves just enough of the source material to create that sense of literary resonance, without preserving stage elements that wouldn’t translate well to novel form.

It’s really, really good. Don’t be like me. Don’t waste time not reading On the Isle of Sound and Wonder.

It’s very well written, especially for a first novel, and well edited. I didn’t come across any passages that read wrong enough to knock me out of the book, and ended up gorging on the whole thing in a single day.

I cannot recommend it highly enough

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