This was such a fun book! I was eyeballing it for a few weeks before I picked it up as I wasn’t sure whether I’d be into the whole “choose as you go” thing. Turns out, I am! “Romeo And/Or Juliet” was a hilarious, smart, and entertaining book I will definitely be re-reading. I read the book in about 30 different ways, some ending after only ten pages, some making it much farther through the book. This novel was completely unpredictable, and because of that I was never bored.One of my favourite th...

4 starsThis is gonna be a short review because I just put my effort into writing Romeo and Juliet the actual book review. This book was ok, I definitley think if you didn't like Romeo and Juliet then you will love this because, just hearing how the book ended when you actually read it and then reading this version is so much better. The only reason I didn't like this book was because I just keep getting dead ends, like I know that is not the books fault BUT STILL. Overall, I think all people nee...

I must confess I expected a bit more. The reading playthrough is too short for a book with 400 pages. It makes for lots and lots of different possible universes with dozens of endings, from the most vulgar to the most craziest. However when each branch is starting to really pick your attention it ends, leaving a sentiment of frustration.Also, Ryan North writing style is not my cup of tea, tries to much to be funny, making jokes with every little detail, even if some of the jokes are very well co...

A+ for concept, but I didn't much like the execution. Tries way too hard to be funny, which makes it all fall flat for me, and the writing isn't particularly good.

i want to read this exactly enough to keep it on my shelf without wanting to read it enough to ever actually pick it up. is this relatable?

this is super fun! on my first readthrough as juliet i ended as a spinster pirate, so A++ adventuring really.

I don’t know if I’ve truly “finished” this book as the choose your own adventures have a LOT of different outcomes, but I went through the story over 15 times with different pathways so I’m calling it a win!This was fun, odd, kind of over the top, kind of an homage to Shakespeare, kind of its own thing...the whole nine yards. At the beginning of my trials, I thought the author unfairly gave Romeo/the men all the fun parts and side quests and left Juliet to either one-off “endings” or the boring

Monthly buddyread with Melissa :)---Melissa's review here--2.5 stars (extra rating for the artwork/pictures)Not bad overall, parts of it were fun. I tried a few different paths to see what would happen and took turns as Juliet and one as Romeo. There were some funny moments but most of the writing felt awkward to me... maybe aiming at a younger audience? (Speaking only for the paths I took)Story got old quick though *shrugs* Not sure how to judge my progress but I (and Melissa) got through a fai...

I did not enjoy this. This is my second chooseable path adventure from the author. I really enjoyed the first one but this one was not for me. All the different situations either seemed too similar or ended to hastily. There was a lack of variety and in the name of humor all we got is a lot of sexual innuendos and teenagers trying too hard to be funny. I cringed a lot throughout.Unlike the previous one where we had situations close to the original plus those completely outrageous and different t...

If you like Choose Your Own Adventure books, you will probably enjoy this gamified version of Romeo and/or Juliet. North provides a great many paths to take with a variety of endings from the original tragic one to completely-laughable-and-almost-unrelated-to-the-actual-story ones (I lost it laughing at Romeo's stint as a maid! I still don't know why that's so funny!). In that sense, it's either a lot of fun or a great deal of stress, depending on what you were looking for in your adventure. I p...

A really inventive take on Romeo and Juliet, it works well in Kindle where you can follow the links easily. I found some of the teenage angst a bit irritating and the idea of Juliet as a body-builder just didn't work for me.

New York Times bestselling Romeo and/or Juliet is a choose your own adventure type of deal, a ridiculously entertaining take (or takes, since there are plenty of them) on a classic that’s pretty ridiculous in and of itself. A classic it may be, but the word timeless doesn’t apply to this particular work, and the older I get, the more annoyed I am by Romeo and Juliet both.Ryan North took the famous tale and explored its weaknesses, but he also added pretty much everything that crossed his mind, f...

I haven't gone through every path yet, but I've gone through quite a few. Mostly as Juliet (except when, as Juliet, I pretended to be Romeo trying to seduce Juliet, that is me, but then somehow became Romeo, now me, trying to seduce Juliet, now no longer me.) so I feel safe reviewing this a bit.This is basically the best kind of fun to have with your friends--especially book lovers, English majors or Shakespeare lovers. North has an irreverent tone that, while it doesn't always work completely w...

I’ve been wanting to read the Hamlet version of this, so when I saw this, I grabbed it out of curiosity and because I love the artists involved in these books. It was way more wacky and hilarious than I expected. I found myself flipping back and forth to read every path.— Jessica Yangfrom The Best Books We Read In December 2016: http://bookriot.com/2017/01/03/riot-r...

Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKKp7...Star-rating systems are inherently ridiculous (said the guy who ranks books on YouTube), but here in particular those three stars are really a 5 and a 1 at the same time. This book is as much fun as sitting on your hand till it loses all sensibility, yet it's somehow hilarious and exciting too. Is it good interactive fiction? NO! Is it worth a spin? Absolutely.

Move over, No Fear Shakespeare. Ryan North's mashup of "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels and the Bard's most famous play is approximately 271 times more compelling, humorous, and enlightening than any Coles Notes rip-off. The genius of this book is in laying out very clearly which choices to pick to follow Shakespeare's play - if you want, you can essentially just read an updated version of the tale, replete with sassy modern commentary, or you can play out how some seemingly small changes to t...

I think that I'm just really bad at Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type books. My decisions almost always lead me to an early death or a premature resolution. I played this several times and never got beyond more than a chapter's worth of pages. I finally ended up just going through the book out of order, looking for the promised plot twists and hilarious illustrations but honestly, I was a bit disappointed. I just didn't find the book to be that funny. It was over-the-top and forced. Not my kind of

I am not big on Romeo and Juliet but this was hilarious (mostly because it just made fun of them the entire time).

Hilarious choose-your-own-adventure book! Just as I used to do with the ones I'd take from the library as a child, I read every single possible option. Nowadays it's easy using screenshots to do this. When I was a kid, I had to use a confusing mass of color-coded post-it notes. Isn't technology wonderful?This book is particularly hilarious if you remember Romeo and Juliet very well. I wouldn't think that I'd remember it all that well because I haven't read it since high school. But that time I r...

I think I'm done with this one for now. I just can't seem to get past the beginning of the story, and I never really liked Romeo and Juliet anyway, and I just don't find this book as funny or surprising as To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure, and now I'm just bored. I think it's a case of, okay, I get it, but the joke's been done before and let's move on. You know?But other people on here seem to be loving it, so what do I know?