Review: Could have been good
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2013
After all the five star reviews I was looking forward to a zany romantic comedy. This book fell far short of my expectations. It started out fine and I was enjoying it until Juliet met Romeo.  Then it went straight downhill. I can't believe the author thinks anyone over the age of thirteen would act like Juliet. In an effort to get revenge because Romeo (who was also pretty immature btw) wouldn't turn his music down, she tried all kinds of ways to get back at him and when they would backfire she just tried something more stupid. Looks like eventually she would learn, but no, she just kept on.One of the most irritating things about the book was when a character was introduced (maybe with a name and description) nearly every time the character was mentioned we were given the description again. Another thing was that when we could see how the characters felt by the dialogue, the author described how they felt in narrative. Give the reader some credit for figuring out that when Juliet tells her sister Sara, "I can't stop crying." the reader can figure out that she's sad and the author doesn't have to spell it out.I think that with some good editing and taking out all the repeat information (which would probably shorten it by half) this could be a good book.  Well, that plus the author should take a quick course in pronouns.