Juliet Immortal - Stacey Jay
Synopsis: Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.
This was one of my most highly anticipated books this summer and here's why: I freaking hate Romeo and Juliet. I think that they were both complete idiots and they were just both so willing to throw their lives away for each other when they'd only known each other for a short amount of time and mistook lust and like for love. I mean it would be different if Romeo died saving her from an evil monster or something, but no, they just died because they couldn't be together. Stupid idiot kids.
So that's why I got so excited when I saw that Stacey Jay wrote this version where Romeo turned evil and murdered Juliet so he could live an immortal life. I loved that Shakespeare's version was mentioned as a recording of an event that Romeo shaped to his own purposes.
Basically, the "true" story is Romeo murdered Juliet so he was granted an eternal life: his catch is that he has to thwart soul mates (something that usually ended in death. Oh, and the girl he murdered, Juliet, was found right before she died and became a part of an ancient group called the Ambassadors of Light. So she gets to stick around for eternity too, following Romeo around making sure his plans don't work. So each time a soulmate is in danger, the two enter the bodies of people around the soul mates and he fights to keep them apart and she fights to make sure the stay together.
It's all been going well, but this time around Juliet falls in love. And oh my gosh, this leads to one of my favorite endings. I kind of saw it coming, but it still made me do a happy dance. I obviously won't tell you what the ending is, but I can say that this is a version Shakespeare should have written. It's not so aggravating.
There were moments I felt sorry for Romeo, because things aren't working out so well for him. He's finding out that the deal he took has a lot of fine print that's making him suffer. But at the end of the day, he's an idiot (both Shakespeare and Stacey Jay's versions) and he deserves it.
The best way to describe this book is Romeo and Juliet for pessimists. It's almost a demonstration that soul mates exist, but it definitely shows that just because it's meant to be doesn't mean it's going to work out.
Juliet Immortal - Stacey Jay
Synopsis: Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.
This was one of my most highly anticipated books this summer and here's why: I freaking hate Romeo and Juliet. I think that they were both complete idiots and they were just both so willing to throw their lives away for each other when they'd only known each other for a short amount of time and mistook lust and like for love. I mean it would be different if Romeo died saving her from an evil monster or something, but no, they just died because they couldn't be together. Stupid idiot kids.
So that's why I got so excited when I saw that Stacey Jay wrote this version where Romeo turned evil and murdered Juliet so he could live an immortal life. I loved that Shakespeare's version was mentioned as a recording of an event that Romeo shaped to his own purposes.
Basically, the "true" story is Romeo murdered Juliet so he was granted an eternal life: his catch is that he has to thwart soul mates (something that usually ended in death. Oh, and the girl he murdered, Juliet, was found right before she died and became a part of an ancient group called the Ambassadors of Light. So she gets to stick around for eternity too, following Romeo around making sure his plans don't work. So each time a soulmate is in danger, the two enter the bodies of people around the soul mates and he fights to keep them apart and she fights to make sure the stay together.
It's all been going well, but this time around Juliet falls in love. And oh my gosh, this leads to one of my favorite endings. I kind of saw it coming, but it still made me do a happy dance. I obviously won't tell you what the ending is, but I can say that this is a version Shakespeare should have written. It's not so aggravating.
There were moments I felt sorry for Romeo, because things aren't working out so well for him. He's finding out that the deal he took has a lot of fine print that's making him suffer. But at the end of the day, he's an idiot (both Shakespeare and Stacey Jay's versions) and he deserves it.
The best way to describe this book is Romeo and Juliet for pessimists. It's almost a demonstration that soul mates exist, but it definitely shows that just because it's meant to be doesn't mean it's going to work out.
