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Not great, but not awful

Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors

May 25, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

Mimi is a reluctant actress, forced into the profession by her mother to continue in her family legacy.  Mimi would rather go to med school, but her controlling mother will hear none of it. It doesn’t matter that Mimi has stage fright.  Her current torture is playing Juliet in her family’s theater. Troy is a self-centered teenage pop star whose agent has decided that taking on the role of Romeo will be good for ratings, despite the fact that he’s not very good at acting. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr11, Shakespeare, Suzanne Selfors, time travel

crystalclear's CBR11 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr11, Shakespeare, Suzanne Selfors, time travel ·
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Wedgie & Gizmo at it again

May 21, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Not realizing that the Wedgie and Gizmo series by Suzanne Selfors was not a stand-alone book, I picked up the second one. However, while you should read the first title first, there is enough background to help fill in some blanks. The story about the family and friendship runs side-by-side with the story of Wedgie and Gizmo as it is told from the point of view of the animal telling the chapter, but also the narrator gives information that neither pet could understand. Wedgie is […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Fisinger Skorjanc, Suzanne Selfors

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:155 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: Barbara Fisinger Skorjanc, Suzanne Selfors ·
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