Juliet Immortal

Juliet Immortal
By Stacey Jay
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2011. 320 pgs. Young Adult Fiction.

Is Romeo and Juliet the ultimate love story? Stacey Jay, takes a bit of a different perspective in her continuation story of the classic Shakespeare play.

Romeo is offered the chance to become immortal if he will kill his true love, Juliet. After sacrificing her, Juliet is also offered a chance at eternity if she will work for the Ambassadors of Light fighting against Romeo and his kind. Juliet must work to save true lovers from encountering a similar fate as hers. Now with more than 700 years of fighting, Juliet is a bit jaded until the day she meets a young man that she can’t help falling in love with even though she’s been forbidden to do so.

I was somewhat disappointed with this book. I thought the concept so interesting, and I loved the idea of the tie in to the play. There just wasn’t enough stand-out material to keep it from being lumped with the rest of the supernatural romances that are so popular right now.

AJ