However, and as much as I have indeed enjoyed Saving Juliet, I am also no longer a teenager, but rather an often critical older adult reader (and one who does usually tend to read closely and often with potential criticism in my mind, especially when it pertains to characterisation).

And yes, if I had read Saving Juliet as a teenager (in other words, if the novel had been published in the 1980s, when I was a teenager) I would most definitely have both devoured Saving Juliet and rated it very highly, with four and perhaps even as high as five stars. Now as a story in and of itself, as a time-travel (or perhaps in this case, one should say more a play-travel) fantasy, Suzanne Selfors' Saving Juliet really and truly presents itself as a massively fun romp, a bit chick literature-like perhaps (and most definitely conceptualised for and specifically geared towards teenaged girls) but I have indeed very much enjoyed the entire premise of Mimi finding herself in William Shakespeare's vision of Verona, in William Shakespeare's story of Romeo Monatgue and Juliet Capulet, and absolutely do love the voice of the narrator, of the main protagonist, as Mimi to and for me feels totally authentic, lovable, adorable, and is also very much someone whom I would consider a so-called a kindred spirit (and of course, romantic and sentimental I indeed also very much appreciate that the title Saving Juliet really speaks the truth, that Juliet and even Romeo are saved, and that in fact after actually almost never even meeting in this adaption, in Suzanne Selfors' Romeo and Juliet take-off, Romeo and Juliet actually do end up together as a couple and permanently so, and certainly very much alive).

Saving juliet by suzanne selfors