Title: William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars #1)

Author: Ian Doescher

Genre: Play, Science Fiction, TV/Movies

Published: July 2, 2013

This book was Star Wars told in iambic pentameter.

I am pretty sure I would have enjoyed this book less if I had not seen and enjoyed the movie. Despite the chorus' directions the action was often vague. I also had a problem with many of the asides the different characters would do. I wasn't sure they were always within the established personality. My favorite person in the movies was R2 D2, but if my opinion was completely formed from this version I would have thought he was a snot and would have not liked him at all mainly from his comments to himself.

I did have fun when Leia and Han's interactions sounded a lot like Beatrice and Benedict's. Much Ado About Nothing is my favorite Shakespeare. I had never made the correlation between the four characters before even though in this context it was obvious. I believe this connection is why I liked this version as much as I did.

Overall I gave this book 3 stars out of 5.