Genevieve's Reviews > Lady MacBethad

This prequel to Shakespeare's famous play follows Gruoch (also called Groa, the future Lady MacBethad) through her life as she follows her ambition to become queen and seek revenge for her family. Gruoch is wonderfully written as an ambitious, intelligent, but also lovable character. The story explains a lot of the background to the conflict in Shakespeare's play, but is also historically accurate, set a at a time when Scotland was divide into smaller Kingdoms. The story flows well and is easy to read with well-defined characters and good chemistry between Gruoch and MacBethad.
Isabelle Schuler is an excellent historical fiction writer and I hope she continues to write books within this vein of either expanding on Shakespeare's villainesses or Scottish history. I am hopeful for a sequel to Lady Macbethad, covering the real events of MacBethad's rise to power and the events Shakespeare covered in his play. I already have my suspicions about the witches!
Thank you to NetGalley and Bloomsbury for this eARC