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If you are even slightly familiar with the story of Romeo and Juliet you will love this book. It tells the story from a different perspective, both from teh first person point of view of many characters, and from behind the scenes of the main actions that the original play talks about. The character developement for Rosaline is beautiful, and well as the romance she dabbles in. A good read for men and women ( In fact I just had my guy read this recently and he loved it). I full heartedly reccomend. Also the seller was quick and on time with the delivery.


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Romeo Ex Rosaline Story Lisa Fiedler 9780805075007 Books Reviews

I think the meshing of Rosaline's perspective and the original story was done well. Being written for the Young Adult, I felt the story probably could have used more depth, but for the most part, I loved it. It offered a slightly different light on the events that transpired from the Capulet's ball and it's refreshing. As someone who didn't completely fall in love with Romeo and Juliet's story as an epic love, this version of events had me clapping and nodding and agreeing completely with Rosaline and Benvolio. It tugged at my heartstrings a bit, reading again of the tragic events and more so with Rosaline's perspective. It was funny, sad, entertaining, and just ... enjoyable.

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Okay, so at the library last night I picked up two loosely-based-on-Shakespeare YA novels. I have a weakness, both for Shakespeare and for YA fiction, so it was fairly inevitable. I haven't yet begun Ophelia, but Romeo's Ex Rosaline's Story I began and finished last night.

My first impressions were moderate- the author's use of quasi-Elizabethan language seems more of a forced affectation than an effective way to tell a story. It's understandably simplified for the sake of modern readers (I don't really believe in reading Shakespeare's plays- watching them and hearing the words spoken aloud leads to a much richer and easier to understand experience.), but it still feels pretentious, particularly when lines from the actual play are interspersed in the book- always, always, in italics.

Until two hundred pages into this 246 page book I was unimpressed, but still sorta enjoying it. Rosaline was far more of a modern woman than would be acceptable in 1595, and her affections seemed just as fickle as Romeo's (seriously, she kissed Mercutio and Benvolio in the same night, each time affirming that she loved the man with all her heart). It was nice to see the notion reflected that Romeo and Juliet are foolish, and not the Most Romantic Couple Evah. (I still remember the arguments I had about that when I was taking my Shakespeare class up in Madison... several middle aged women were absolutely aghast at my irritation with the pair.)

But the story lacked heart. We're told that Rosaline wants to be a healer when she grows up (regardless that in 1595 a 16-year-old was considered an adult), but her healing skill seem to involve only patching up Romeo's friend Petruchio (yes, he of Taming of the Shrew fame) at the beginning, and then noticing- with alarming frequency- that people Are Not Dead.

For a play where Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, and Juliet all end up dead, only two of them are actually DEAD dead when Rosaline comes across them. Tybalt is in a coma- not from the sword-wound, but from hitting his head when he fell. Rather than telling the authorities, of course, Rosaline take him back to the healer and tries to cure him herself, while getting a replacement body to be buried in the Capulet tomb. While in the coma, Tybalt's ghost watches over Juliet (which felt like a very forced way to keep an eye on the Romeo-and-Juliet part of the story while Rosaline's stuff happens).

Don't worry, she didn't kill the replacement body- it was a man who was killed by a dog while trying to abduct 10-year-old Viola (from Twelfth Night- she and Sebastian are orphans being cared for by Benvolio).

Insert eye-roll here- but that wasn't even the point where I lost my suspension of disbelief entirely. That may shock you, but I haven't yet gotten to that point yet.

The story continued to be derivative in unnecessary ways. Rosaline had a balcony scene (with Mercutio), and planned a fake engagement with Benvolio to try to convince the families to stop feuding.

The truly ridiculous part comes directly after "for never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

So, Paris, Romeo, and Juliet are all lying dead in the crypt. The parents have sworn to call off the feud and erect statues. Then, everyone proceeds to leave the bodies there in their varying states of disarray, and go off and do... something. Benvolio, Rosaline, and Viola (for some reason), are there, and they're trying to sneak Tybalt's now actually-dead-body into the crypt. (Oh, did I mention that Tybalt's ghosty-self went back to his body to die so that he could lead Juliet to heaven because Juliet's ghosty-self was full of guilt over the suicide? No?)

They get inside and! Romeo and Juliet aren't really dead yet! Rosaline can tell from some super-sense that Juliet is dying, but perhaps she can save them both!

And this is where I shrieked at the book.

Juliet is a breath from dying, Tybalt has been dead for at least an hour, and IN 1595, Rosaline decides she wants to DO A HEART TRANSPLANT.

I am not even joking. She wants to do a heart transplant using only Romeo's dagger and Juliet's wedding ring for a singular clamp. Now, I don't know about you, but having a baby sister who has undergone several heart surgeries (no transplants) gives me the knowledge that THAT IS DAMN WELL IMPOSSIBLE.

After several pages, though, she's convinced to not do it- why? Because Rosaline doesn't know if Juliet could love Romeo if she had Tybalt's heart.

WTF.

All of the good reasons she has to not do it- like... infection, blood types, white blood cells, SANITATION (these are people who thought bathing too often made one ill!), lack of training, lack of equipment... and she decides that Tybalt's heart would prevent Juliet from loving Romeo.

So she instead make Romeo puke up all the poison, and he's okay. They all sit there in the crypt until Juliet really dies (and no one else comes back), and 10-year-old Viola teaches herself to read, overnight, from gravestones.

Yeah.

Then, to teach the Monteagues and Capulets a lesson, Benvolio and Rosaline decide to make them responsible for Viola and Sebastian's upbringing- because Viola looks so much like Juliet, it's giving them a second chance.

Then Rosaline goes off to study medicine at a university in Padua. In 1595.

In a mere 46 pages, this book went from meh to WHAT THE CRAP IS GOING ON WHAT WAS THE AUTHOR THINKING!!!

I ranted for a good hour yesterday about it. ARGH.
i feel that this was a horrible twist of shaskpeare. if you have any respect for him this book will just piss you off. it wasnt so bad at teh begainning everything is cool and intreastiong to see from ohter points of view. but once the deth toll starts it drops down horribly. what angered me the most was they brought Romeo back from the dead!!! and of course couln't bring juliet back... and worse Romeo says something like, i only knew her for five days maybe it wasnt real love. i mean really !!!! that ruins the whole point of the play and the emotion shakspeare worked hard to put in to the play.
Really? What kind of an ending was that?! Of all the Romeo and Juliet adaptations I've read, this one was my least favorite.
An engaging story, giving us a new perspective on a range of characters.
This book was fantastic! I have always been interested in Shakespearian plays, and this book was a great new take on a classic.
This story shows the other side of the age old romance between Romeo and Juliet, but it develop those background characters people fell in love with. Benvolio was always my favorite character, and this book helps to develop his story and Rosaline, a character who never had a role in the play.
The author included an array of ideas, which put a new spin on the story. She put a lot of thought into developing her characters, their personalities, their feelings about love and the ongoing feud, but she never neglected the real story and the setting Shakespeare set.
Overall, a fantastic read. I feel it is a book young adults will enjoy and something teenagers and adults can relate to. Great read, I recommend it. The ending is surprising, yet it is refreshing and full of great ideas!
If you are even slightly familiar with the story of Romeo and Juliet you will love this book. It tells the story from a different perspective, both from teh first person point of view of many characters, and from behind the scenes of the main actions that the original play talks about. The character developement for Rosaline is beautiful, and well as the romance she dabbles in. A good read for men and women ( In fact I just had my guy read this recently and he loved it). I full heartedly reccomend. Also the seller was quick and on time with the delivery.