Rating: Excellent! (5)
This week I read The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper. The book follows 6 teens that have been choosen to go to Verona Italy to study Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the very place it was set. In this class they volunteer for the Juliet Club, writing letters to the unfortunate soles that love has wronged. While writing the letters, they may find some things about themselves. The story mainly revolves around Kate, a practical girl who had grown up with the tales of Shakespeare and has decided after a relationship-gone-bad, that falling in love was not for her. As you read, you'll find Kate growing from someone who rolls their eyes at the very idea of Romeo and Juliet being romantic (It DOES end with a double suicide afterall) to finding that she cannot simply tell herself to not fall in love. Although the end is quite predictable, you'll find you do not want to put this book down. I recomend this book as a light, easy read, that will make you laugh and even (it's hard to say this) swoon as passages from the most famous play in history are recalled.
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