This book is a wave of love stories tying together the past and present. They all bring different love struck characters, but with similar heartache.

Helene is escaping a cheating husband and finds herself in an Alaskan cottage. She’s spent years writing short stories and decides it’s time to put them together in one book. Then smack! A character (and secret story crush) is standing in the same room as her. She’s about to learn that her imagination might have been showing her glimpses of memories.
Then there is a possible curse. Will she be the one to escape it?


❕Way back when, I took a Shakespeare in Literature class. Of course Romeo & Juliet was one of my faves. But this….brings a twist and a new ending. Evelyn Skye gives us endless love, soulmates, and HOPE! And then she bring more of the same in her acknowledgments!

❗️I was conflicted if it needed an epilogue. Do I really want an update? 🤔. The pace of the end seemed a little faster than majority of the book and I could have done with a little less Merrick/Adam mess. Otherwise I loved it! (Stayed up til 1 am to finish it!)

Snag this one for a little dose of love this summer! And thank you to NetGalley, Random House-Ballentine, & Del Rey Books for an ARC in exchange for my honest review! 💕


This book has:
•Romance •Forbidden Love •Tragedy
•Dual POV •Forced Proximity

Review has already been posted on Goodreads.
Will be posted on social (IG) on July 10th.

Thank you to the publisher for this early copy of this book. I love retellings, I think there is something awesome giving new life to these classics which is what drew me to this book. It did a good job of feeling like a new book and also familiar. I thought it was unique and a good story! Our two characters, Sebastian and Helene are star crossed lovers (Romeo & Juliet) and are destined to find each other over and over again.

This book sent me on a rollercoaster of emotions. From truly high highs, to devastating lows, The Hundred Loves of Juliet is a romance for the ages. It captures the complexities and fragility of love, and the risks we set ourselves up for by choosing to participate in opening our hearts.

Inspired by the author’s own love story with her husband, who lives daily with a terminal illness, the precariousness of love shines through hopefully as we watch reincarnated versions of Juliet fall for the immortal and king suffering Romeo.

At times I had massive amounts of anxiety, waiting for the other show to drop and for their curse to wreck havoc again, while simultaneously feeling so full of hope and knowing things have to turn out well for this couple. As the reader, I was truly able to relate to and empathize with Romeo and Helene (Juliet) as each held fear and hope close to their hearts.

I highly recommend this book and really loved it. As someone who was diagnosed with a terminal illness, survived and has to live with the PTSD of the survival and precariousness that is my life, this book spoke so deeply to my heart and the love I hold in it for those in my life.

I usually love retellings but this one unfortunately didn't do it for me. I think it hit a little too close to magical realism which isn't my favorite genre. It's an interesting concept and the multiple vignettes help move the story along, It has similar vibes to Time Travelers Wife, In Five Years, The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue. The writing is beautiful and poetic however for me the frequently shifting time lines made the book harder to follow and get into. Overall I think people who enjoy magical realism would rate this much higher. Overall it was enjoyable!

This was a light, easy-to-read story but I felt the execution could have made it a deeper, more poignant book. Thanks to the publisher for the advanced copy.

I admit the premise intrigued me, but the execution ended up feeling lacking, leaving me feeling unsure how to rate & review this book.

In the book, the author imagines if Shakespeare got it wrong, and Rome & Juliet ended in a different way. Romeo is cursed to live forever, meeting and falling in love with Juliet, who is reincarnated, forced to die young, often tragically and unpredictably. The novel picks up with Juliet's most recent life as Helene, a young woman, escaping to Alaska to write her novel while in the process of divorcing her asshole es-husband. Sebastian, as Romeo goes by in this lifetime, is a crab fisherman in Alaska, horrified to learn that Juliet has found him, despite his best efforts to evade the curse.

The book initially read quickly for me, and I loved the chemistry between Helene and Sebastian, but at about 50% of the book, once they decide to fall in love despite the curse and the threat of imminent death for Helene, it starts to drag quite a lot. To me it felt like the author wasn't sure where to take the book. And the conclusion, and how they "defeat" the curse was so quick and lacking in my opinion. As mentioned, I was left feeling conflicted about how to rate & review this book. It started off so strong, and engrossing, but fizzled out.

After thinking it over for 2 days, I've decided to land on 3 stars. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either, and although overall enjoyable, it wasn't memorable either.

Thank you to Random House Ballantine books and NetGalley for the electronic ARC of this novel for review.

Wow! What a unique and satisfying retelling The Hundred Loves of Juliet ended up being. I wasn't sure after the first few pages but fortunately I pressed on and am glad I did. Retellings can go very wrong, so I'm wary with many. This one was a win!

I absolutely adored this story!

I am typically not a Romeo and Juliet kind of gal. However, this author did SUCH a good job with it.

She took a completely different approach in this story. Romeo and Juliet are cursed. Romeo becomes immortal and cannot die. Juliet CAN die. But when she dies, she gets reincarnated and is drawn to Romeo as she grows up. It explores all of their love stories into present day, Helene and Sebastian’s, love story.

This is beautifully written. I laughed and cried throughout the entire thing. It was also interesting. The entire concept kept me reading wanting to find out if the curse is ever lifted. It was truly a 5 star read for me!

What a beautifully written retelling of a timeless classic..

Sebastian is your grumpy Alaskan crab fisherman. He wants nothing to do with a honey kissed woman who storms up to him and says she insists she has seen him before. Thus the lie of having to go home and feed the dog is made. He would rather spend an enteral life alone then speak to the one girl he feels a strong connection with.

Helen is your typical woman who moves to Alaska to start fresh. She just filed for divorce from her cheating ex, wants to write a novel, and live her best life as the new Helen would want. She has nothing better to do when she arrives then to go to the only bar she sees. There she sees the man of her dreams not to mention her imaginary friend growing up.

Now the story does start off very slow, almost to slow that I was close to not finishing the book.. then we started figuring out who Sebastian is doing everything in his power to not be in the same area as Helen or why he goes out of his way to make her mad. A few chapters in you read about the century old curse of Romeo and Juliet, he lives and immortal life while watching his only love die a hundred times. Her death ranges anywhere from a simple sickness to dying after living an empty life full of drugs and bad decisions. Going into this book I knew it was going to be a retelling of Romeo and Juliet so I had an idea of what this book was going to be life. However this book was way beyond my expectations, it told us a different ending to what we grew up reading. I loved the idea of the curse because to me it taught a lesson of self forgiveness. Sebastian (Romeo) lived his life of self hate and self blame. He could never really be present and love the reincarnated soul of Juliet until he fully forgave himself. Once he could do that, with a little help of Helen, he got to have his happily ever after over 700 years later.

Helen's persona was probably my favorite in this book.. Rather then helping solve the curse, or wanting things for herself, she helps Sebastian. She sees a man that is unhappy and filled with grief and wants to figure out why. Even though she finds out about how she recognizes him and that she will eventually die from the curse, she doesn't care. She never stops trying to make him happy and teaches him about forgiveness and to have a pure heart. Such a beautiful character.

Ill end by saying that the ending could have used more. All of the work Sebastian's team put into it to only get the "he signed the papers" was kind of a let down. I wanted to know more about what when through her ex and Aarons head when they found out what they did to them. Overall I did enjoy this book.

I wanted to like this book but I just couldn’t. It felt too rushed but I also didn’t feel like I got to know the characters at all.

Reincarnation is just one of those subjects I find fascinating - so pair it with classic Shakespeare in a romance novel? Sold. The way this book was written was excellent: with the main characters as an author herself searching for the story we were reading. I loved it and even though it ended in a good place, I would love to see Evelyn Skye maybe write us a few novellas or short stories about Helene's past lives.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC of this title in exchange for my honest feedback.

I adored the premise of this book, as pretty much anything that involves magical realism, especially as it relates to time, has my immediate attention. The pacing of the plot, however, felt a little anticlimactic in that nearly the entire book was spent trying to puzzle out the main issue, then it was resolved within a page or two without much fanfare. The writing itself also felt a little clunky and I was never really able to just lose myself in its pages without remembering "I'M. READING. A. BOOK". All in all, this would be a good enough beach read but nothing incredible memorable.

This was a very unique story and i loved it. The premise alone captured my heart.
Many thanks to Random House and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I’m gonna be honest and say this book wasn’t for me. I would have liked to read the backstory of the author and her husband instead. That little summary was heartbreaking and gave all the feelings and emotions that this book lacked. Helene is a character who is pushy and likes cakes and books, (that’s all I got) and Sebastian had a wicked case of emotional trauma that made his run from his fear/love so it was hard to focus on the romance in the story. Between Helene who wasn’t all that memorable and Sebastian who continued to gush his love for a woman he’s running from, I had a hard time seeing the chemistry between them. There wasn’t dialogue that showed them growing closer or getting to know each other. They just already were in love….. because of the past. So it just sort of became two ppl who go places together and talk but we don’t actually see the love build so it felt hard to feel. The big, bad ex was unnecessary and cliche. I wasn’t really a fan of the ending but there are plenty of people who liked it. Overall, I wish it offered more of a connection between Helene and Sebastian and was more creative with the lives. ( Can we get more diversity besides raven vs blonde hair? I mean, this character was in other countries and still was nearly the same person.)

I always love a retelling and this retelling of Romeo & Juliet with a twist didn't dissapoint!

Sebastian and Helene are star crossed lovers who keep having to find themselves over and over again. This was a cute, quick love story for any hopeless romantic out there.

“I missed her as much as the stars would miss the sky if they ever fell to Earth.”

“And in that single, fiery moment of detonated stars when time ceases to exist, I know for certain: He is Romeo, and I am Juliet.”

5/5⭐️

Thank you NetGalley and Random House for this ARC.

Bravo. I feel speechless. I definitely sobbed more than once lol.

I am a huge Romeo & Juliet fan. (I even have a tattoo!)
In 9th grade English class Shakespeare was what made me fall more in love with literature. So it’s only natural that I’d pick up a retelling.

This was a brilliant display of a classic retelling & mixed in are some amazing bits of historical fiction. I loved the vignettes throughout the book, it added an extra layer to our characters in the story.

If there was one book that needed to be a movie or series within the next few years; this is it.

I seriously did not want this book to end. I’ve been dragging out reading it just to savor every word on every page.

The dual POV was also amazing. I sometimes struggle in books with more than one POV because I can’t snap into the other characters fast enough but this was effortless.

The Hundred Loves of Juliet was awe inspiring & had me on the edge of my seat.
Thank you Evelyn for an amazing read. 🩷


I’ll be posting my Goodreads review and instagram review immediately!

I received an ARC of this novel from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Romeo and Juliette meet each other again and again in this novel.

What if Shakespeare got it wrong and Romeo and Juliet didn’t end as we’ve been taught? What if Romeo lived, but was doomed to keep meeting reincarnations of Juliet? 🎭

I had such high hopes for this one! I thought the premise was so unique, but unfortunately, the execution didn’t quite work for me. The core of the story was great and I liked the mentions of Sebastien (Romeo) and Helene’s (Juliet) many past lives, and had the book focused on this alone, I think it would have been enough, but it seemed to fall victim to trying to add “more” until it was simply just too much. There is an entire sub-plot revolving around Helene’s divorce, which while it was the catalyst of her move to Alaska, it felt too front and center, and for me, was an unnecessary distraction from the main plot. I also struggled with the overall character development. For Sebastien, his backstory fleshed him out as a character, but Helene felt juvenile and more surface level, making her more difficult to connect to and I then struggled to buy into them as a couple. The book also took a turn around the 85% mark and became a bit too outrageous in my opinion. Overall, I thought the book was just okay, but I’m bummed because it had the potential to be so much more. 😕

My thanks to NetGalley and Random House for an advance copy of this eBook, out 8/1/2023.

This one just didn't work for me -- I hope it finds its audience, and I'm grateful to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read it.

I love books about reliving lives, so I couldn’t resist a book about Romeo and Juliet where Romeo is immortal and Juliet is reincarnated over and over.

Juliet and Romeo meet and fall in love every time Juliet is reincarnated, but it always ends in tragedy. We follow Helene (Juliet) in modern times as she meets and falls for Sebastien (Romeo). We also get insights into their past lives through vignettes that Juliet writes. In this timeline, Sebastien is trying to keep away from Helene. He thinks they can avoid tragedy if they don’t fall in love this time.

Unfortunately, this book didn’t work well for me. I did like the beginning, although the writing was not my favorite. I didn’t love the way their past lives were told through vignettes. I wanted to know more about their pasts. The part that I disliked the most though was the ex-husband side plot. I didn’t think it added anything to the story, and I actively hated what was happening in the last 20% of the book. I found it a bit ridiculous and overly dramatic.

If the synopsis of this book sounds intriguing to you, I’d recommend you pick up A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers instead. It has a similar premise but is done better in my opinion.

2.5 stars rounded up for Goodreads