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Star-Crossed - Barbara Dee Review

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So I first heard about this book on Tumblr. The author's daughter had made a post about when she was younger and realised that she started to have feelings for a girl at her school and had told her mum about it so her mum wrote a book about it so that other young people going through the same thing would have something to relate to. The main character, Maddie, starts to notice the new girl, Gemma, at school. Soon they are both cast in the school play, Romeo and Juliet and Maddie starts to realise that she likes Gemma as more than a friend. I like that the entire novel is a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet except without the tragic ending. I really enjoyed the little nods to Shakespeare throughout the novel. The ice-cream store that Maddie hangs out with her friends is name Verona's the town where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is set in. The shopping centre where Maddie goes to buy a dress for a school dance is called Mantuas, the town where Romeo is banished ...

March TBR

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Since I read a lot of books in February, I thought that for March I would keep my TBR list on the shorter side. The only new book coming out this month that I really want to read is: I also recently download the entire famous 5 series (a series I loved to read when I was younger) so I plan to read a least 2 of those this month: Other books on my TBR are: And of course the books I didn't finish in February: What's on your TBR pile?