Heather Oman’s Reviews > By Any Other Name > Status Update

I am remembering now why I stopped reading Jodi Picoult. Her research into Shakespeare is obviously deep and layered, and she sprinkles Shakespearean easter eggs in the dialogue throughout flashback to the 1600s. Then she ruins the illusion by using a phrase like “chewing the scenery”. It’s jarring. (And no, that’s not Shakespeare, I double checked.)