3.5 actually 
 Anyone who reads my reviews or blog will know I love nothing more than a Shakespeare retelling. I have read as many of them as I could fine that actually looked like I would enjoy them. So when I stumbled upon Still Star Crosses I was excited and a little concerned. Concerned because Romeo and Juliet is my LEAST favorite play and excited because it had to do with Rosaline and I always felt her a much under rated character. 
 I enjoyed this book a lot, it had great premise, excellent action scenes, the characters were well flushed out and the descriptions were beautiful. The author did something I really loved, she tied this in with others of the Bard's plays like Much Ado About Nothing. The villain also took me a bit by surprise and I liked that a lot. 
 These were my issues however: 
 1)	They speak in that Shakespeare kind of thee thou way....but the descriptions and inner monologues were not written the same way. I feel it would have been better all written modern. 
 2)	Love Triangle- Rosaline loves the Prince, the Prince loves Rosaline, Rosaline loves Benvolio and Benvolio loves Rosaline....Blech... Why does this sort of this happen so much in novels right now? I HATE IT!! Ok, she's beautiful but really? C'mon. Yuck. 
 3)	The Prince- can we say major douche bag. (view spoiler)[ he black mails her to do what he wants, like threatens her VIRTUE. (hide spoiler)] And yet she STILL loves him and considers marrying him. EEEEWWW! He is a total ass and I HATED him. Like I was angry and heart broken for poor Rosaline about the Prince and just wanted him to die a horrible and sad death. 
 Aside from those items I very much enjoyed this novel. It was well written and kept my attention, in fact I couldn't put it down. 
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