Genre: Young Adult
Sub Genre: Paranormal Romance;
Time Travel, Shakespeare, Theater
Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Back Cover: Two Juliets, both
alike in desperation… Seventeen-year-old Mimi Wallingford, of the Broadway Wallingfords,
has a life most girls can only dream of – complete with the starring role in
her family’s production of Romeo and Juliet. But acting is not her dream, and
she’s fighting for the right to trade her script for a scalpel and become a
doctor. Fourteen-year-old Juliet Capulet, of the Verona Capulets, has lived a
lonely life – imprisoned by the feud that consumes her family and by her
iron-fisted mother’s forcing her into an unwanted marriage. She will do
anything to avoid her betrothed, even if it requires faking a boil on her
bottom – or something more dangerous. During the play’s final performance,
Mimi’s wish to get away actually comes true when she and her heartthrob costar,
Troy Summer, are magically transported into Shakespeare’s Verona. Now that she
knows the real Juliet, Mimi doesn’t want to stand by and allow the play to
reach its tragic end. But if saving her new friend means changing the ending of
the greatest love story of all time, will she and Troy ever make it back to
Broadway?
Mimi has grown up in and around theater, and she hates it.
Her Romeo is actually called Troy who is a pop star. As things go forward she
and Troy go to the time of the real Romeo and Juliet. This is a great story
that shows a new take on the great characters of Romeo and Juliet. The story is
all told in the perspective of Mimi. It is such a change by using a classic
tale that is so well known and putting a new twist on it. I really loved
reading this story, as it takes Shakespeare and time travel together.
Publisher: Walker Publishing
ISBN: 0802798314
Pages: 272
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