Juliet Immortal review

Juliet immortal by Stacey Jay

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What's it about?

"These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume."
—Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The most tragic love story in history . . .

Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.

My review:
5/5
When this one won the vote to be our next travelling book I admit I was a bit wary, I thought it was a big lovey dovey romance fest and I'm really not into romance books, lucky for me that wasn't the case. It does have romance and love is a big focus but the book also has so much more than that. It starts right away with an action scene and goes on from there, I really enjoyed every minute of it.
This book would've been great just as a book but with the twist on the story of Romeo and Juliet it really gives it something special and I think Stacey Jay did an excellent job.
I was with Juliet every minute as she fights between doing her job and what she wants, I felt her battling emotions and really wanted it to work out for her at the end because I really couldn't predict what would happen.
There were lots of good twists in the plot that kept things going and I found the reading easy going, I really enjoyed some of the more humorous references to the original play when Romeo was taunting Juliet and the more serious references.
Ben was another great character and Gemma to in her own way.
There are a lot of emotions flying around in the book from all the characters because they all have their own baggage and I think Stacey Jay also did a great job with this, it wasn't to intense but I could understand what everyone was going through.
So I'm happy to have been proven wrong about my intial impression of this book and am excited to find Ms Jay has quite the back catalogue for me to start working on!

My thoughts on the cover:
I do really like this cover, the girl sitting alone portrays Juliets feelings of loneliness in her immortality. The dress of course is pretty (aren't they always!) and I like the title font to, it has that classic feel.

Favourite quotes:

That horrible play. That contemptible lying play he helped Shakespeare pen all those hundreds of years ago when he first twisted our story to fit his agenda. - Juliet

"You do matter," he says, voice soft.
"You matter to me."

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What I'm reading?

Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay

Blurb:



"These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume."
—Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The most tragic love story in history . . .
Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.

My thoughts:
I actually started this a couple days ago but forgot to the post lol I'm about a third in and really enjoying it, I'm reading it as our travelling book before I have to pass it on. When it won the vote I wasn't sure it was really my thing because I'm not really into big romance books but luckily for me it has a lot more to it than that and I'm looking forward to seeing how it ends.

What are you reading?



Juliet Immortal travelling book - Sign-up closed

The travelling book is basically like an ARC tour except they aren't ARC books, they're books I've paid for myself to send around the world to everyone who signed-up to read it.

Once each person has read it they write a small comment in the book of what they thought and post it to the next person on the list.

When the book has finished its journey I then send it on to the author as a gift if they are willing to accept it.

So it's the end of sign-up for our latest travelling book which is Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay.

Including myself 40 people have signed-up to read the book! And I've already spoken to the author who has said she'd be thrilled to receive the book when we are finished!

Before I add the list of people in the order the book will be travelling I wanted to refresh you on the rules, the bits in red are new.

1.      You must be willing to pay the postage and packaging fees to pass on the book including international. You can use whichever service you choose but something with tracking is strongly recommended to avoid the book getting lost.

2.      You have a maximum of two weeks to read and send on the book.

3.      You have to let me know when you've recieved the book AND when you send it on so I can keep track and keep everything up to date.

4.      When you've finished reading, write on the inside cover or a blank page your name, where your from and a small comment of what you thought. (If there's no blank space then just write on a piece of paper and slip it between the pages, don't write over the words in the book.)

5.      If you choose to review the book, come back here and post a link to your review or email me the link and I'll include it in the final post with all your comments from the book when it's over. This is optional though.

6.      Also if you want to you can add a postcard from your country or a bookmark or maybe even a book you don't want, as a gift for the next person, then you can but it's not mandatory.

7.      And you must of course be a blog or page follower to participate.

8.      Once sign up is closed I will post the list of people and the order the book will go in here so you can check the status anytime, however I'll contact you when it's your turn so don't provide any postal details until I ask.

9.   When siging-up please provide an email address you check regularly so you don't miss my email and miss your turn, also add bookaholics@live.co.uk to your 'safe' list.

10.  If you get to impatient and decide to read the book ahead of your turn please still receive the book and write in your comment as the book is going to the author.

11.  If you do sign-up and have a blog it would be super awesome if you blogged about it or grabbed the button to help spread the word but you certainly don't have to.

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Right that's business out of the way!

Here's the order the book will make it's journey

1.       Me – Birmingham, England

2.       Donna Rushton – Birmingham, England

3.       Tammy Tarpey – Telford, England

4.       Emma Davies – Bridgend, Wales

5.       Stephanie Barker-Drew – Wirral, England

6.       Kayleigh-Marie Gore – Cleveland, England

7.       Emma Timney – Glasgow, Scotland

8.       Siobhan Phinn - Scotland

9.       Louise Pridige – Essex, England

10.   Aimee Coelho – Plymouth, England

11.   Mikila Marshall – UK

12.   Zoë Somers - Belgium

13.   Patricia  Duarte - Spain

14.   Valentine Verlezza – Italy

15.   Urša Bračun - Slovenia

16.   Sotiria Plaga – Athens, Greece

17.   Andreea Copaciu - Romania

Roselyn Caguin – Guam, USA (moved from #34)

18.   Nicole Roslon – Perth, Australia

19.   Yineth – Cartagena, Colombia

20.   Kary Wideman – OK Oklahoma, USA

21.   Valerie Burleigh - LA Louisiana, USA

22.   Rebecka Waller – GA Georgia, USA

23.   Stephanie Karina – FL Florida, USA

24.   Monique Ansari – FL Florida, USA

25.   Caitlin Audet – FL Florida, USA

26.   Janel Mullins – VA Virginia, USA

27.   Kalinia Owens – DE Delaware, USA

28.   Paige Byars – NJ New Jersey, USA

29.   Danielle @ MyMercurialMusings – NJ New Jersey, USA

30.   Ivy Elliot-Delgado – CT Connecticut, USA

31.   Tanya Contois – MA Massachusetts, USA

32.   Dena Johnson – WV West Virginia, USA

33.   Pam Mandigo – KY Kentucky, USA

34.   Roselyn Caguin – MO Missouri, USA

35.   Karen Shipp – IL Ililinois, USA

36.   Dawn Walter – IL Illinois, USA

37.   Dawn Slaughter – IL Illinois, USA

38.   Jessica Wells – OH Ohio, USA

39.   Mindy Macheske – MI Michigan, USA

40.   Kayla Snifeld – ON Ontario, Canada

41.   Back to me – Birmingham, England

42.   Stacey Jay (Author) – CA California, USA

This time the book is travelling in the opposite direction to the other two to make it fair and will be starting with myself, it's already making it's journey from bookdepository to me.

Voting for the next travelling book will begin in October for the book to go out November!

Traveling book - August/September sign-up

Visit the original Traveling book blog that started it all

(Was on Thoughts of a mad hatter first but she moved it to it's own blog)

The important bit.

What is the traveling book?
Basically if your interested in reading the book and being a part of the traveling book then use the form to sign up. Then everyone who signed up will take turns to read the book, write a comment in it and then post it on to the next person on the list, until eventually it travels the world and makes it back to me. If possible I'll then pass it onto the Author if they want it and they can see all the comments, which I'll also post on here for you, and it'll make a lovely keepsake for her/him.

RULES
PLEASE READ ALL OF THESE BEFORE SIGNING UP.

1. You must be willing to pay the international postage and packaging fees to pass on the book.
2. You have a maximum of two weeks to read and send on the book.
3. You have to let me know when you've recieved the book AND when you send it on so I can keep track.
4. When you've finished reading, write on the inside cover or a blank page your name, where your from and a small comment of what you thought. (If there's no blank space then just write on a piece of paper and slip it between the pages, don't write over the words in the book.)
5. If you choose to review the book, come back here and post a link and I'll include it in the post with all your comments from the book when it's over. This is optional though.
6. Also if you want to you can add a postcard from your country or a bookmark or maybe even a book you don't want, as a gift for the next person then you can but it's not mandatory.
7. And you must of course be a blog or page follower to participate.
8. Once sign up is closed I will post the list of people and the order the book will go in here so you can check the status anytime, however I'll contact you when it's your turn so don't provide any postal details until I ask.

The fun bit.

Well newsletter subscribers will already know that the book that won the poll was Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay and were invited to sign up early yesterday.

"These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume."
—Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The most tragic love story in history . . .

Juliet Capulet didn't take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn't anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she's fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romantic love and the lives of the innocent. Until the day she meets someone she's forbidden to love, and Romeo, oh Romeo, will do everything in his power to destroy that love.

If this sounds like a book your interested in reading go fill in the FORM to sign-up. Sign-up will run throughout August and the book will start it's journey on September 1st.