I think both the idea and the execution were great. The book first highlighted how girls (and women) were used in Shakespeare stories - as plot points, as tragic tales, as sounding boards for men's' ideas and woes. This novel in verse tells the stories of Juliet, Ophelia, and Cordelia from their own point of view and gives them a little personality. As someone not super well versed in Shakespeare, I didn't really have a clue about the lack of feminism in the original works! This book allowed the characters to reclaim what happened to them, although their stories didn't miraculously become less tragic (they were in the tragedies for a reason). Some of the lines in verse were really touching to even me, someone who isn't partial to reading in verse. The book also brought a lot of my attention to the fact that Juliet is only 13 years old at the point in her life in which she meets Romeo, which really drives home just how wild their story is.