Romeo & Juliet & Vampires

Name: Romeo & Juliet & Vampires
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780062012067

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Stina Nielsen

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 08/31/2010

Categories: Children's Fiction, Classic Children's Stories, Horror Stories, Children's Humor

Synopsis

""You are deluded, Romeo. Vampires do not have the capability to love. They are heartless.""The Capulets and the Montagues have some deep and essential differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can escape their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to kill their undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their blood feud is unstoppable. So it's really quite a problem when Juliet, a vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should be hunting her, fall desperately in love. What they don't realize is how deadly their love will turn out to be—or what it will mean for their afterlives. . . .This riotous twist on the ultimate tale of forbidden romance is simply to die for.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Reading Vacation on March 09, 2011

REVIEW This book mixes the classic Romeo and Juliet story with the current vampire trend. While I have read other retellings of classics, this is the first one I’ve read that takes on vampires. I liked the way that Claudia Gabel kept the setting as the late 1500’s, but did not write it with Shakespea......more

Goodreads review by Syazana on October 19, 2018

4.5 stars. Everything was okay. I love how the plot goes and how they didn't change much from the real concept. However, I'm very quite disappointed with how it ends. It seems like the author was rushed to finish the book. Full review will be in my blog.......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on March 14, 2022

Every month I'm picking one book from my TBR to read to clean the shelf up. This one has been getting dusty from 2013...so I finally tried it just to get rid of it. And I was pleasantly surprised. Very well written, this was from an era of YA books where all classics were given a supernatural make o......more

Goodreads review by Kayla (Heroic Pages) on July 22, 2019

that was a fucking dumb ending....so fucking dumb......it's supposed to be a tragedy!! YA DUMB......more

Goodreads review by Jess on November 09, 2016

Clever twist on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. I don't usually read retellings of classics but I'm very interested in the vampire trend & I thought that it would be a good read. I loved the writing style but I do think that classics should be left as they are. ☺️......more