Clearly, she hasn't learned anything from past mistakes. Montague to reconcile as a romantic pairing, but at least they were meeting on a reasonably level playing field, which made their interactions much more interesting than Juliet (who is supposed to be immortal and inhuman, mind you, in addition to wearing a different girl's body) and Ben's headlong tumble into True Love, which manages to be just as fast-paced and disastrous as Juliet's original romance with Romeo. Sadly, I was much more invested in Juliet's relationship with Romeo than her burgeoning romance with Ben. If Ariel has no control of her body during Juliet's takeover, what is she supposed to do when she gets her body back? How will she reconcile the events that occurred during Juliet's occupation? Jay offers a few half-baked explanations, but obviously hopes her readers will just buy Juliet as some kind of benign parasite and focus on what's really important: romantic melodrama. She wants to improve Ariel's life, but I never grasped how the whole host body thing worked. The mechanics of Juliet's job as an Ambassador were totally incoherent.

although she (or at least her host body) might not survive the attentions of her former husband long enough to find out. When Juliet arrives in the body of a shy, scarred girl named Ariel and gets to know an impossibly kind human boy named Ben, she begins to realize that there might be more to her own romantic destiny than her twisted relationship with Romeo.

Romeo and Juliet clash over the centuries, inhabiting various bodies and attempting to sway the emotions of dozens of ill-fated lovers. The newly-deceased Juliet, meanwhile, signs up to work for the Ambassadors, a mysterious group that attempts to protect love.

In Jay's version of the Romeo and Juliet romance, Romeo murders Juliet in order to become one of the Mercenaries, immortal beings devoted to the destruction of love. This is why I was unable to forgive the weaknesses of Stacey Jay's Juliet Immortal, despite the fact that I found the book entertaining enough to finish in one sitting: it was plenty readable, but it made no damn sense. I'm perfectly willing to buy “It's magic!” as an explanation for something, but if the magic in question behaves a certain way, it better keep behaving that way throughout the novel. I set the bar low for fantasy novels-all I ask is that they follow their own rules.

Juliet immortal by stacey jay