Review: Prince of Shadows by Rachel Caine
Rachel Cain is a YA/NA writer that most will associate with her popular series of books, The Morganville Vampires . (Of course, Cain has written many other works, however these are her most famous.) I have not yet read any of her other books be they Morganville Vampires or another series, which means that I got the opportunity to read her stand-alone retelling of Romeo and Juliet without having anything that could potentially alter my opinion. Also, it's been more than fifteen years since I last studied Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (in high school,) so I would have undoubtedly forgotten a number of the subtleties that exist within the story. Both of these things combined meant that I had the chance to read this one purely for pleasure and not as a critic. And, you know, sometimes that can be fun and the best way to let the story wash over you. In this retelling, we have a narrator, none of than Benvolio Montague, cousin of Romeo. In many way, this time around it i...