All's Well by Mona Awad REVIEW

 All's Well

by Mona Awad

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Synopsis

Miranda is a theatre professor whose life is less than satisfactory. After falling during a performance early in her acting career, she finds herself in constant, seemingly incurable pain and struggles to even sit still. When she hopes to revisit the glory of her acting days by having her class stage Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, she is met with a mutiny from her students, led by her least favourite undergrad--the devious Briana. Forced instead to put on Hamlet, Miranda is devastated at the duplicity of her students, underhandedness of her boss, and is consumed by frustration at the lack of control she has over her own body and life.

When she's drowning her sorrows at the local pub one night, her path takes a sharp turn. Three mysterious men in suits who seem to know everything about her--her pain, her glory, and her deepest desires--offer to help her. After drinking a glowing, golden liquid, she wakes up the next morning with no memory of the night before, and her chronic pain has lifted. Miranda's life starts falling into place: she is not only walking but running with ease; Briana has become gravely ill; and a twist of fate allows Miranda to stage her beloved All's Well That Ends Well. But as a lover of the Bard, Miranda should know that sudden streaks of luck always come at a price...

All's Well is a searing exploration of chronic pain and depression through the classic tensions between saints and sinners, healers and witches, revenge and jealousy, love and lust to craft a completely modern and truly unique rendition of a Shakespearean play.

Review

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a free e-arc in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Well... this was a ride. All's Well is a wonderfully weird story featuring one of the craziest characters I've ever read about. I loved the unreliable narrator and not knowing what was actually happening. It felt like every time I knew what was going on something else would happen to throw me off. Throughout the story we are thrown into a lot of different directions without ever having everything totally explained. Reading this book is like having hallucinations, you never know what is actually happening and what is all in your mind. It's a wild tipsy ride only for those looking for the next weird thrill. 

I still haven't read the synopsis for this book. In full transparency, I wanted to read this one because I've heard so many people talk about Bunny and how weird of a book it was and then I had the chance for an arc so I grabbed it. Now I'm thinking Bunny has to be one of my next reads because of how much I enjoyed this one.