Author: Stacey Jay
Published: August 2011, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
I have an obsession with Shakespeare. My favorite play by him is Romeo and Juliet. In college I wrote a paper on how politics forced Romeo and Juliet into their final position: dead. Stacey Jay explores an alternate ending for these two tragic characters in her novel Juliet Immortal.
Juliet cannot forgive Romeo and secretly desires to destroy him. Seven hundred years of "slipping" into others bodies to protect soul mates has left Juliet's soul jaded. When she finds herself in the body of an emotionally damaged girl, Ariel, she finds herself falling in love with a boy in her borrowed body. Romeo wants Juliet to love him again. Juliet cannot ever forget or forgive that he murdered her for his own immortality. What is the lesson she missed in her bodily life?
What I enjoyed most about this novel was the angle Jay approached it from. In the play Romeo and Juliet die for love of each other. What about the greater love and lesson they forgot? I will not give any spoilers. Read the novel to find out for yourself.
(#3 of the 100 Book Challenge)
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