A Daughter of Fair Verona

Netgalley read.

It started out okay. This is not a stories that takes itself too seriously and it’s kind of camp and over the top. The narrator is at times addressing the reader directly and it reads more like young adult that adult fiction.

And I will never understand how/why Romeo and Julias firstborn is named after Romeos girlfriend that he dumped for Julia, but fine.

I was okay with this book even though it was not perfect, and then comes the effing ending. Are you kidding me? What the actual…?

SPOILER: So Roise wants to marry Lysander but his family are not impressed with her dowry and Rosie, Nures and Lysander comes up with the idea that at night sneak off and get caught by their family in a compromising situation and have Lysander ask for permission to marry Rosie to avoid a scandal.

Everything is going to plan and Rosie is making out and being felt up by a man in the moonlight, only to realize it’s not Lysander but Prince Esculas who has prevented Lysander to show up and is taking his part in this scheme instead and she’s not forced to marry him instead. He says stuff like, I want to marry you because your house is neat and you have nice breasts. And everyone is okay with this sort of.

This is SA, not cute at all. Rosie is not as angry as she should be and I effing lost it.

There was so cute banter between her and the Prince and you could have change her mind at some point and that Lysander was just a shallow thing. I hated this ending and I was fine with this book but now I… I just can’t.

I LOVE this book! Dodd did an amazing job writing an older Romeo and Juliet and leaving a lot of humor in there. The Montague family is enchanting. Rosie is hilarious and headstrong. There are so many political machinations that she has to work through to keep her reputation and find love, not to mention the murders. I was surprised by the murderer, but thinking back over the book the hints were there and I just missed them. The twist at the end with the romance was kind of expected, but I was still sitting there with my mouth hanging open. I can't wait to read the next book and see how Rosie deals with everything. Who knew I love Romeo and Juliet stories so much?