Helpful Score: 2
I normally flunk books that choose to reverb my favorite classics, but i L-O-V-E-D this. Told through Juliet's perspective in the present, she finds herself retracing her family roots in Italy through clues left from her mother. (I know it sounds soooo boring). The first several pages almost completely discouraged me. Then the flash backs to Romeo and Juliet began and I winced with pain before I read the words. After sticking with it, I was biting my nails and racing through several chapters in angst to find out what new curve ball Fortier was throwing. Anyone who is familiar with Romeo and Juliet will appreciate this modernized re-telling. I FELL IN LOVE with all the characters past and present. By the end I was wishing for more. My only gripe with this is I wish there was a bit more passion between the modern day Alessandro and Juliet. Juliet's twin sister was a character I would have been happy without, but then the story would have felt incomplete for some of the pieces adding up to the end puzzle. Some things felt a bit forced and hard to reckon with, but I would still read this over and over. I want it to be a movie!
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