She produced the movie “Fire and Ice”, which is a Grammy winning documentary. After growing up in Denmark, she went to USA to work in the film industry.
I have a few minor complaints, but on the whole this is prime escapist fiction, perfect for anyone who enjoys a modern departure from classic Shakespeare. Without giving away endings (because you will be guessing till the end), the story, while feeling comfortingly familiar, is at the same time new.Anne Fortier is an author of a bestseller book called “Juliet”. With chapters flip-flopping back and forth between the two ‘Juliet’s, I was kept on the edge of my seat for the entire 450-or-so pages. What follows is a lot of intrigue, treasure hunting, chase scenes, not quite knowing who to trust, and plenty of gasping and shouting from the reader (that is, if you’re as interactive with your novels as I am). But nothing we say is just a story.” What’s real and what’s legend are frequently conflated. To quote an interesting character: “Everything we say is a story. Six-hundred years apart, the two story lines nevertheless begin to intertwine in the most fascinating and page-turning ways. Breaking up the progression of this plot line, is that of Giulietta Tolomei, a young country girl living in Siena in 1340, and her quick and ill-fated romance with one Romeo Marescotti. Upon the event of their great-aunt Rose’s death, Julie is let in on a family secret, leading her back to Siena, Italy to do some major digging. One follows our modern-day American heroine, Julie Jacobs who, along with her twin sister Janice, was orphaned by shady circumstances roughly twenty years ago when their family lived in Italy. While Juliet definitely falls into the romance category, it could also easily be called a mystery, thriller, or historical fiction, which is what I like most about it.īoth plots – yes, there are two – are twisty and complicated. And you’ll remember this one from my fall TBR, meaning I had high hopes for it. Sigh. Sometimes all a girl needs is a proper romance novel.
Ballantine Books, 2011, 461 pages (paperback)
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