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|title=When You Were Mine

|author=Rebecca Serle

|reviewer=Jill Murphy

|buy=Maybe

|borrow=Yes

|pages=352

|publisher=Simon & Schuster

|date=April 2012

|isbn=0857075160

}}

In this modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Rosaline has been best friends with Rob ever since they were tiny. But recently, their friendship has grown. The electric crackle of attraction is sparking between them and they are tentatively inching their way towards a relationship. One night they kiss and Rosaline believes they are about to become the couple she has always believed they were destined to be. But then her estranged cousin Juliet arrives back in town. She makes it clear she wants Rob and will stop at nothing to get him. Rosaline can do nothing but watch as Juliet steals her boyfriend ''and'' her best friend...

For some intensely romantic books about ill-fated first loves, you could look at [[Dangerous to Know by Katy Moran]] and [[Lucas by Kevin Brooks]]. Or if you want to see what a YA author can achieve when riffing on Shakespeare, try [[Exposure by Mal Peet]], an updating of Othello.

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