![]() Bertie’s emerging word-magic is a threat to the order cherished by the Theater Manager. Now seventeen and discovering her abilities, she seeks her own place in the theatre as the Teller of Tales, capable of adding new dramas to the Compleat Works. Aided and abetted by her best friends, four small fairies from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, she sows chaos and change in a place accustomed to scripted characters speaking the same lines every night. ![]() ![]() If you like theater, Shakespeare, or stories that play self-consciously with the concept of storytelling, don’t pass up this Young Adult trilogy about performers from an enchanted theater inhabited by all the characters enshrined in “The Complete Works of the Stage,” a magical book that’s bigger inside than out.īeatrice Shakespeare Smith, or Bertie for short, is not one of these characters but a foundling child raised in the Théâtre Illuminata. In fact, if (like me) you read Eyes Like Stars when it was new, you will probably want to refresh your memory, because this second volume starts right where the first one left off, taking the revelations of its busy conclusion and running with them in new, ever-weirder directions. ![]() Perchance to Dream, the second book of Lisa Mantchev’s Théâtre Illuminata trilogy, does not stand alone, so if you haven’t read Eye Like Stars, get that one first. ![]()
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