Ok so this is a hilarious book. It’s a Choose Your Own
Adventure, but based on the story of Romeo and Juliet by Willy Shakes. It’s the
same sort of format as North’s earlier adaptation of “Hamlet” called “To Be or
Not to Be: That is the Adventure!” from like 2013. In that last book, you could
play as either Hamlet or Ophelia and could go on sidequests to fight pirates
and cool stuff like that. Here, you can be either Romeo or Juliet (you can also
be both at one point), and there’s a bonus Nurse sidequest and an ending
involving huge robots to boot!
(Not to be too spoilers-y, but you can also unlock a secret
character if you make the right decisions, ooo!)
Like the last book, an illustration goes along with each
ending, which was made by an online comic artist, so it’s all very good and
hilarious.
And if you don’t feel like being too adventurous, there are
heart icons next to the options that Shakespeare picked when he was writing his
version of the story, so you don’t have to make too many choices if you don’t
want to!
Great new take on an old story, I hope he keeps making these
as I love seeing Shakespeare in different contemporary forms like this.
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