Book Review: Ill Met By Moonlight

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Ill Met By Moonlight     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Sarah A. Hoyt
Class/Genre:   Fantasy   Historical
Ace, Oct 2001, $21.95, 288 pp.

A young Will Shakespeare is married to Nan and is a father to their baby Susannah. After a day of teaching, Will comes home to his Stratford residence only to find both his beloved females missing. He walks to her cousin's house to fetch Nan when he sees her dancing with a noble in a magical kingdom that cannot exist. He is unable to touch her because she is now in Fairyland.

Will has no hope of ever getting back Nan and his child until he meets Silverdawn in her guise as Lady Silver. She is the rightful heir to the fairy throne since her parents disappeared. However, her older brother Sylvanus has usurped the throne turning her into his supplicant. Silverdawn intends to use Will as an instrument of revenge even though she knows he will probably die for her cause.

ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT is a delightful Elizabethan fantasy that colorfully describes Shakespeare's mundane plane and the realm of fairy. Will is the hero of the tale, yet the novel belongs to Silverdawn, a fairy with heart. Hopefully Shakespeare will have more adventures in the land of the fairy.

Harriet Klausner

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