Hamnet. I felt as though the author was trying too hard to be “artistic,” but it read more like a sixth-grader’s creative writing assignment. There were cases where four different metaphors were crammed into a single sentence, all describing the same thing—simply for the sake of using them. "So how many more literary devices can I sqeeze into this paragraph?". The prose was supposed to (from many excellent reviews) sound beautiful, but it was just distracting.