Status Updates From Laertes: A Hamlet Retelling

Don’t know why I thought Ophelia’s death wouldn’t hit me this hard in a book from her brother’s POV.

Oh Laertes, we’re really in it now. (RIP Polonius)

OK I LOVE THIS, HENRI JUST SAID THE ‘THERE ARE MORE THINGS’ QUOTE AND IT’S SO SMART TO HAVE CHARACTERS SPEAK HAMLET’S LINES WHILE NOT HAVING HIM AS THE CENTRAL CHARACTER THIS TIME

“Not only was her [Ophelia’s] whirlwind romance ultimately doomed”. Oh Laertes, I wish you weren’t so right in ways you will yet come to understand

Love this so much. The fact that Laertes immediately clocks Claudius as having killed King Hamlet but believes it’s a ridiculous accusation. So good

And now King Hamlet is dead. Oh Laertes you’re in for some sorrow now