Book review: Saving Juliet
Feb. 15th, 2010 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thelakeSaving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors 
I'm a little bit disappointed in this book, because it felt like the author got bored after the first half and just wrote whatever came to her mind. The first few chapters are absolutely delightful and funny, they were so good I was convinced to mail the book to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
awakencordy so she could read it asap, but now I don't think so.
It wasn't horrible, I still finished it with a smile on my face, but I expected something more from a re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet. It just got so... predictable after a while. I can accept a book being predictable, because honestly this book was already written, Romeo and Juliet, come on, but it could have been a bit more ironic. Mimi and Troy's relationship could have folded out a lot better. For example he could have been with Mimi from the very beginning when they first landed in Verona and instead of Mimi meeting Juliet at the day of the ball, alone, at Capulet's, they could have met long before that and change the course of events even before the ball. But then again, it's not my place to judge the plot, but I can say whatever I want for the execution.
I really liked Juliet's portrayal and the fact that those were some 14-15 year old kids who fell in love and died in Shakespeare's majestic play. I also loved Benvolio because to be honest I've always been in love with him just like Juliet was :D And I have to admit I didn't care about character's physical attributes, I automatically imagined everyone from Baz Luhrman's Leo Dicaprio version Romeo + Juliet :))
The theme was again coming of age and a teenage girl deciding what do with her life despite her mother's decisions about her future. I liked the parallel lines between Juliet and Mimi, but I felt unsatisfied. The beginning offered so much character development, then the middle was dull, after that it suddenly ended and everything was magically okay. Maybe it's just me expecting something grater than what this book was all about, but I wished the whole book could be as much fun as the first couple of chapters where Mimi talked about her surroundings and her life in an extremely honest, young and funny way!
So this was the first book of my "one-book-a-month" project. Not bad, but not satisfactory either. Hence, 3 stars.
I'm a little bit disappointed in this book, because it felt like the author got bored after the first half and just wrote whatever came to her mind. The first few chapters are absolutely delightful and funny, they were so good I was convinced to mail the book to
awakencordy so she could read it asap, but now I don't think so.It wasn't horrible, I still finished it with a smile on my face, but I expected something more from a re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet. It just got so... predictable after a while. I can accept a book being predictable, because honestly this book was already written, Romeo and Juliet, come on, but it could have been a bit more ironic. Mimi and Troy's relationship could have folded out a lot better. For example he could have been with Mimi from the very beginning when they first landed in Verona and instead of Mimi meeting Juliet at the day of the ball, alone, at Capulet's, they could have met long before that and change the course of events even before the ball. But then again, it's not my place to judge the plot, but I can say whatever I want for the execution.
I really liked Juliet's portrayal and the fact that those were some 14-15 year old kids who fell in love and died in Shakespeare's majestic play. I also loved Benvolio because to be honest I've always been in love with him just like Juliet was :D And I have to admit I didn't care about character's physical attributes, I automatically imagined everyone from Baz Luhrman's Leo Dicaprio version Romeo + Juliet :))
The theme was again coming of age and a teenage girl deciding what do with her life despite her mother's decisions about her future. I liked the parallel lines between Juliet and Mimi, but I felt unsatisfied. The beginning offered so much character development, then the middle was dull, after that it suddenly ended and everything was magically okay. Maybe it's just me expecting something grater than what this book was all about, but I wished the whole book could be as much fun as the first couple of chapters where Mimi talked about her surroundings and her life in an extremely honest, young and funny way!
So this was the first book of my "one-book-a-month" project. Not bad, but not satisfactory either. Hence, 3 stars.
