Star Crossed

Star Crossed
By Barbara Dee
Reviewed by Regan

For my book review, I will be reviewing the book “Star Crossed” by Barbara Dee. I chose this book because I love Shakespeare and stories written about his work.Also I found it interesting because there are very few books that are have LGBTQ+ kids in them, bisexual characters are especially rare.

So the book starts out with the main character Mattie going to a Halloween party with her friends. She is wearing her little brothers Darth Vader costume so she can hide her voice and face. She has to hide them because she wasn’t invited to the party but her friends convinced her to sneak in to see what her crush, Elijah was doing. While she’s there, she goes up to the kitchen where she meets Gemma, an English girl who goes to her school and who elso ends up being her co-star in their 8th grade play, Romeo and Juliet. (Mattie is Romeo and Gemma is Juliet) The more time Mattie spends with Gemma, she realizes she might just have a crush on her, but is confused on weather it is okay to have crushes on boys and girls. They go through with the play and all goes well and afterwards, they go to their Valentine's Dance.

I loved this book because I think the characters were written very realistically, each character has their flaws and good traits. Also the plot was interesting enough to where once I started reading I didn’t want to stop until I got to the end.

This was my review of Star Crossed by Barbara Dee, I recommend anyone that likes Shakespeare or books about kids in middle school trying to figure themselves out. This book could be helpful for people of all ages and I think it’s a book everyone should read at one point in their life.