I wish I could get a poster of the cover – it’s fabulous! Suffice to say, there are a few plot twists and great dialogue that make it a real page-turner. Troy and Mimi find themselves in 16th century Verona and Mimi decides to save Juliet and have a happy ending to the world’s most famous tragedy- but I invite you read this wonderful story to find out how it unfolds. To put new life into the theatre and earn some desperately needed revenue, her mother stages a version of “Romeo & Juliet.” Mimi is reluctantly thrown into the production with a California teen heartthrob singer/actor named Troy Summers, who is brought in to generate audiences – that ‘flavor-of-the-month’ pop star all the girls scream after, but a young man who isn’t what you expect him to be. She has to put up with a stage mother from Hell and on her shoulders is the impossible task of saving the family owned and run theatre where the lights should have dimmed a long time before. The story: Mimi Wallingford is a 17 year old scion of a New York/Broadway acting family (think, Barrymore, as in Drew) who really doesn’t want to act. I don’t think I’ll ever get Romeo and Benvolio singing Troy’s hip-hop song “Girl, oh oh oh oh oh, girl…” out of my head. Selfors takes a well-known legend and spins it into something fresh, interesting and poignant at places, hysterically funny at others. I’m already envisioning Molly Quinn from ABC’s “Castle” and Justin Bieber as the Mimi and Troy characters in the movie.

Selfors’ treatment of the characters and the plot is exquisite.

This is my favorite legend of all time and so far, Ms. Selfors’ book, “Saving Juliet.” The cover grabbed me first, and then her prologue had me cracking up – I LOVE THIS STORY! Not since Anne Fortier’s treatment of the legend (the medieval story line in her book, “Juliet”, not the modern story line that runs parallel) have I enjoyed a story this much. I had one great, enormous, fun, time reading Ms.

Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors