#romeo and Juliet retelling

[oblivionsdream]

Book cover redesign for Teach the Torches to Burn by Caleb Roehrig.

This was commissioned by Dazzling Bookish Shop on Insta! 😊

#teach the torches to burn #caleb roehrig #book cover redesign #art #Romeo and Juliet retelling

[4amethyst]

Three words could put me into Mental health hospital "Masha. My Masha"

#one for my enemy #olivie blake #mashadima #sashalev #The Fedorovs #The Antonovas #marya antonovas #Dimitri fedorovs #romeo and juliet retelling #books #tragic books #booklr #booknet #romantic book #witchs book #fantasy books

[deadpanchaos]

I just had a dream where it was the retelling of Romeo and Juliet, but Romeo and Juliet came from two rival detective agencies that were both trying to solve the same murder. Also Romeo was a lesbian woman named Martini. Everyone else was the same.

honestly the most normal dream I’ve had

#Romeo and Juliet retelling #dream #lesbian woman martini

[a-brown-girl-recs-books]

POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR OUR VIOLENT ENDS AHEAD

““What are you afraid of?” Roma Montagov asked.

Julliette’s lips parted. She exhaled a short, abrupt breath. “The consequences,” she whisperer, “of love in a city ruled by hate.””

#ya books #booklr #books #we need diverse books #book quotes #book recommendations #these violent delights #these violent ends #our violent ends #romeo and juliet #Romeo and juliet retelling #ove #TVD #Chloe gong #asian authors

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 4.5/5

Book Blurb: In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. Queer star-crossed love amid a centuries-old feud takes center stage in this Romeo & Juliet remix that knows sometimes, the best way is to make it gay.

Verona, Italy. Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Romeo dreams of a quiet life with someone who loves him just as he is. But as the heir to the Montague family, he is expected to give up his "womanly" artistic pursuits and uphold the family honor—particularly in their centuries-old blood feud with a rival family, the Capulets. Worse still, he is also expected to marry a well-bred girl approved by his parents and produce heirs. But the more Romeo is forced to mingle with eligible maidens, the harder it is to keep his deepest secret: He only feels attracted to other boys.

In an attempt to forget his troubles for just one night, Romeo joins his cousin in sneaking into a Capulet party. During a fateful encounter in the garden, he meets the kindest, most beautiful boy he's ever met, and is shocked to learn he's Valentine, the younger brother of one of his closest friends. He is even more shocked to discover that Valentine is just as enamored with Romeo as Romeo is with him.

So begins a tender romance that the boys must hide from their families and friends, each of them longing for a world where they could be together without fear. And as the conflict between the Montagues and Capulets escalates out of control, Romeo and Valentine find themselves in danger of losing each other forever—if not by society's scorn, then by the edge of a blade.

Review:

A queer reimagining of Romeo and Juliet where Romeo is gay and in love with his best friend's brother and Juliet is aro-ace??? YES PLEASE. Romeo is an aspiring artist, just looking to pursue his passion and be freed of the demands of his family to marry because he has a deep dark secret, he is not interested in women at all. Romeo has tried putting off all the marriage proposals and prolonging it for as long as possible yet when his best friend's brother Valentine finally comes back into town, Romeo knows he's found the one. Romeo knows that his love for Valentine is forbidden and with the tensions in the city rising and the Capulet and Montague families rising, blood will be spilled. Then there is Juliet, the counterpart to Romeo, a girl who wants nothing more than to be freed from the arranged marriage to someone she doesn't want that her family is forcing her into. Juliet is willing to do anything to be freed even come up with a very insane plan for both her and Romeo to make it out of Verona with their lives. This was such a fun take on the classic story and I loved the queer take on the classic. The ending was perfect and I would definitely recommend this for anyone who is a fan of the classic or for anyone who ever thought that maybe Romeo and Juliet should have ended differently!

*Thanks Netgalley and Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Feiwel & Friends for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

#book review #bookish #lgbtq books #teach the torches to burn #romeo and juliet retelling

[screenshothaven]

Bollywood Queen (2003)

#Bollywood Queen #2003 #Jeremy Wooding #Preeya Kalidas #romeo and juliet retelling #Karen David #Kat Bhathena #James McAvoy

[chiapet0]

It is a sight I've missed for days. "It would rather hurt my feelings if this is how you see me in your dreams."

"But you are beautiful." My eyes fill with tears...

#aesthetic #edit #book edit #quote #romantic quote #quote from a book #teach the torches to burn #romeo and juliet retelling #my annotation for this part is funny #its basically me saying this is like my and my boyfriend for real #im the one calling him beautiful #hes the one surprised i find goblin mode beautiful #gods i love him #book quote photo edit #cottage core #aesthetic edit #cute #quotes

[sadrockandwaltzes]

Wuxia R&J

just imagine it- the famous love story- no longer a love story! Two boys from rival kungfu schools/clans meet and become friends, but their families threaten to destroy their friendship.

To try and make peace between the clans so that they can be friends, the two meet often, and even try to secretly become sworn brothers

Unfortunately one boy's family kills the friend of the other boy, and his vengeance leads to his banishment. In an attempt to clear his name/prevent one of the boy's marriage (I forget the plot of R&J. After Mercutio it all becomes a blur)

(Oh right, they took poison to fake die and marry each other in secret, right?)

^they're so sick of their toxic/dangerous (low life expectancy) family drama that they make up their minds to pack their bags and head out to see the world together. But death shenanigans, and the clans at the end are like darn, why did we let our kids die over a 100 year rivalry? We're seriously similar clans. And then they established a triyearly tradition of exchanging martial art techniques/forms and became slightly amicable clans. There is a statue(plaque? Carving?)/garden at both estates commemorating the boys that brought them together. Also they both were pretty average martial arts clans but now they're both way bigger deals, since they started competing vs killing.

#Story idea up for grabs #just saying #I'd rather they're not in love or at least their relationship is vague #just there's so much romance everywhere and many gay versions of R&J #not a wuxia one that I know of but the story's cliche enough it probably has an equivalent #I just like the idea of some really epic friends living and dying for each other #story ideas #romeo and juliet #wuxia #romeo and juliet retelling

[la-sopa]

Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Star Wars Legends - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death Relationships: Roan Lands/Ferus Olin, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Siri Tachi, backround Characters: Enna Lands, Roan Lands, Siri Tachi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Ferus Olin, Wil Asani, minor OC characters - Character, CT-0000/1010 | Clone Sergeant Fox, CC-1010 | Fox, Clive Flax, Garen Muln Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Most dialog belongs to Romeo and Juliet, Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, non canon personalities, Inappropriate Jokes, later major character death, all rights reserved to Folger Shakespear Library and Disney's Star wars, PLEASE give me fed back, No Sex, Everyone Needs A Hug, Minor Oc Characters, I just had deja vu while taging this, Bisexual Roan Lands, Gay Ferus Olin, Wil is the #1 ally, Roan is in denial (just for a little bit), Firrerreo Ferus Olin, I Love Garen Muln, so sorry for making obi wan sound mean Summary:

Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where we lay our scene). From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death- marked love And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, naught could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

* Or Ferus Olin & Roan Lands, two people from the houses That hate each other, fall in love. Forbidden that love is but pursue it they do.

* OR A retelling of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet.

#ferus olin #roan lands #clive flax #wil asani #siri tachi #obi-wan #star wars #romeo and juliet retelling

[tondiable]

The pink section of my bookshelf is looking extra beautiful now that I’ve added Chloe Gong’s ‘Lady Foul Fortune’.

I was so surprised to find this spinoff of her duology ‘These Violent Delights’ and ‘Our Violent Ends’! Following Rosalind’s story a few years after the second book. I haven’t read it yet, I’m still working on OVE, which is growing harder and harder to put down the further into the book that I get. I truly love Gong’s writing, her descriptions are so vivid it’s addicting.

#these violent delights #our violent ends #lady foul fortune #1920s Shanghai #1930s Shanghai #Romeo and Juliet retelling #roma montagov #roma and juliette #juliette cai #bookshelf #bookblr #academia #books #gangsters #blood feud #mine #rambles

[signourneybooks]

Our Violent Delights | Series Review

Our Violent Delights | Series Review

 Series: These Violent Delights by Chloe GongBooks: These Violent Delights | Our Violent Ends Release Date: 2020/2021Tags: Young Adult | Romeo and Juliet Retelling | Classic Retelling | Historical Fantasy | Science-Fiction | Shanghai | 1926 | Romance | Monsters | Insects Trigger/Content Warnings: Death | Microagressions | Racism | Parental Abuse | Self-Harm | Suicide | Violence | Grief |…

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#1926 #3 stars #4 stars #chloe gong #Classic Retelling #content warnings #Death #Gore #Historical Fantasy #insects #microagressions #Our Violent Ends #parental abuse #racism #romance #Romeo and Juliet Retelling #Science-fiction #Self-harm #Shanghai #Suicide #These violent Delights #These violent Delights duology #Trigger Warnings #Violence #young adult

[lescarnetsdehaku]

Advertising in Verone, circa 1940.

#romeo and juliet #romeo et juliette #shakespeare #illustration #artist on tumblr #digital art #advertising #vintage advertising #verone #more of my silly retelling of romeo and juliet #i want a capras now

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

Hot take: it isn't a Romeo and Juliet story if the conflict dividing their respective backgrounds is in any way largely consequential - the whole point of Romeo and Juliet is that their families' rivalry is petty. It's a lot less opposite sides of a war and a lot more opposite sides of a high school football rivalry. A lot less tribes competing for resources and a lot more their parents run competing local buissnesses. A lot less Colonizer/Victim and a lot more celebrities with agents who hate each other. It is supposed to be the stupidest slight with over blown emotions.

#star crossed lovers #romeo and juliet #romeo and juliet retellings #tropes #romeo and juliet trope #star crossed lovers trope

[a-brown-girl-recs-books]

POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR OUR VIOLENT ENDS

“I will fight this war to love you, Julliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.”

- page 321 of Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong

#ya books #booklr #books #we need diverse books #book quotes #book recommendations #ove #TVD #these violent ends #our violent ends #these violent delights #chloe gong #asian authors #roma montagov #Juliette cai #romeo and juliet #Romeo and Juliet retelling #shakespeare #tvd spoilers #these violent delights spoilers #our violent ends spoilers

[cannibalistic-vampirefag]

romeo and juliet modern retelling where instead of poison juliet jumps off a cliff and then romeo follows her but she actually had a hidden parachute so there's the split second where they're looking at each other and then she opens the parachute while he keeps falling. and post.

#romeo and juliet #shakespeare #classic literature #dark academia #modern retelling #retellings #vampireposting

[arthursfuckinghat]

I never noticed before, but Penelope Braithwaite also has a mealy chestnut belgian draft <3

#miss you have good taste 🫡 #oh I love this mission #arthur getting stuck in an american retelling of romeo and juliet <3 #he IS a tragic shakespearian hero after all #oh arthur #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #mick squeaks #arthur morgan #penelope braithwaite #liveblogging #fun fact I have been to italy and met the statue of juliet herself <3 #miss giulietta <3