Okay I really wanted to make a review of this book because I still remember it as if I read it yesterday. 
 I am not going to deny the fact that Shakespeare is one of the gods of writting. He is perfection in person; and he is one of those authors that never "goes old" or "goes out of style". 
 However, this story is too old to be classified as a romantic novel. In real life, this is just a parody. And I'm going to enumerate the reasons but since there will be spoilers I'll just hide it and if you read it, go ahead and read. 
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 1) Let's start with the age issue. They are 13 years old (Romeo's 15 I think?). Love at first sight is one thing, but trying to marry at that age is completely ridiculous. I know that people might marry at that age if they lived during that time but now it's just pointless. 
 2) The fact that Romeo and Juliet went from first base to 10th in only 2 nights. WOW! hold on your horses and hormones. Seriously people, not even this happens in real life. 
 3) Suicidal AF. Please don't deny me the fact that killing themselves was just beyond ridiculous. Romeo why oh why didn't you wait for another minute! JUST A FREAKING MINUTE!! One minute more, and Juliet would've woken up!!! BUT NOOOO! you had to be an inmature reckless boy and swallowed a poison. Jesus! 
 4) The poetic lines that were supposed to be romantic! Now I know that they MAY have talked that way during that time when trying to flirt but on the 21st century if a guy says those lines to me, I would've laughed.... (okay, maybe not. I would consider the guy a really cool one for being so brave for saying that to my face). But reading that is just a big no. 
 5) The story really dragged on at some parts about Romeo describing Juliet to his friends..... Be more specific and less romantic dude. 
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 Overall, the plot is good! But it would've been better for me if the lines were more.... "normal" and the story would've had time skips. Not a three day long romance. 
 I would definately read retellings of this.