Neri
Fair Rosaline by Natasha Solomons
I want to start thanking NetGalley and Bonnier Books UK for the chance to review this book in exchange of an honest review. A twist in one of the best-known tragedy? I was sold!
⭐⭐ /5
“Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo’s attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different life”. This book was suposed to be a subversive retelling of Romeo and Juliet’s tragedy but all I read was a villainised Romeo with a plain Rosaline.
I understand Solomons’ interest in explaining the play from a Feminist point of view, in which the male characters get to be seen without that romantic tone but for what they really might have been. However, the book felt poorly written, not because of the writing style but because of the lack of reason behind everything there is in the story. I believe that retelling such story is very ambitious and for me it tried to be so subversive and alternative that ended up being unremarkable.
Goodreads: goodreads.com/book/show/62841102-fair-rosaline
