Shakespeare’s Landlord

5 Responses to “Shakespeare’s Landlord”

1. Anonymous says:

   June 10, 2010 at 8:19 am

   Don’t get me incorrect: I liked Lily Bard. She’s strong, private, has secrets, is self-disciplined and self reliant, keeps in excellent physical shape and can ruin a man with a quick karate chop. Besides, her house is obsessively clean and she brings that same sense of order to the additional houses she cleans for people.

   And I like Charlaine Harris’ view of tiny town America, with its tawdry secrets and perversions. The town of Shakespeare is populated with people I know, and Lily Bard and I chuckled at how seriously they take themselves and their tiny passions.

   But why would anyone want to kill the landlord? He was no better or worse than any of the rest of them, and his dark self is not keenly enough drawn in this novel to provoke even the smallest curiousity about why he was mangled and his corpse elaborately hidden in the apartment complex. Lily Bard and the society she lives in are the reason I read the book with interest: the plot is superfluous at best
   Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
2. Thomas Frankowski says:

   June 10, 2010 at 8:49 am

   I’ve been reading the Sookie and Harper series. This isn’t terrible but certainly not as excellent.
   Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
3. N. Wilde says:

   June 10, 2010 at 10:59 am

   I read all of Charlaine’s Southern Vampire Mysteries so far with excellent results. But, when I jumped into this book Shakespeare’s Landlord I felt let down tremendously.

   This book is about Lily Bard who’s been through something traumatic. She’s relocated and changed her life. She keeps to herself. She cleans home’s and business. While out one night walking she see’s something. Unsure of whether or not to report it for dread that it will bring up her pass. She makes an anonymous call.

   I was at about page 56 when I was thinking, this chick is dreadful. She really dislikes everyone. Even people who are trying to be nice to her she’s sort of abrupt and fleeting with. It’s common courtesy to be polite. Yet, Lily isn’t. I get that she went through something before Shakespeare but come on. It just makes the tale hard to swallow and not fun at all.

   I vote to skip this one next time. I do want to try one more but I nearly feel like I’m putting myself through something I don’t need to.
   Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
4. N. Ni Riada says:

   June 10, 2010 at 11:14 am

   I really loved this book. Lily Bard is a really strong character and the book has a excellent engaging tale line.
   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
5. S. Stevens says:

   June 10, 2010 at 11:31 am

   Another brilliant book by Charlaine Harris! I like everything she has written and wish she could write quicker!! This is a fantastic book and a fantastic series!!!
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5