Author Lisa Mantchev is sponsoring a Shakespeare challenge, which is Liv of Liv’s Book Reviews is hosting. Read three Shakespeare plays between June 1st and August 31st, post about them in your blog, and you’ll be entered to win a few prizes.
One of them is the book Eyes Like Stars, the first in Lisa’s The Théâtre Illuminata trilogy. Here’s a description:
Welcome to the Théâtre Illuminata, where the characters of every play ever written can be found behind the curtain. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Théâtre by The Book–an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family–and she is about to lose them all and the only home she has ever known.
I cannot tell you how much this sounds like the perfect book to me, the book that will top the list of “Books I Wish I’d Written."
So, join me in the challenge, won’t you?
[via Becky’s Book Reviews]
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