juliet dove queen of love by bruce coville

Now she cant take the amulet off until she brings an ancient story to its conclusion, confronts her worst fear, solves a strange riddle, and dares to defy one of the ancient gods (albeit with the help of several others).Įven the fact that Athena, Hera, and Cupid are running around doesnt seem strange compared to two talking (and later flying) rats and the crowd of lovesick boys who suddenly start following Juliet everywhere she goes. As soon as Juliet puts the amulet around her neck, she finds out that she is in serious trouble. Well, whoever the lady is behind the counter, she seems desperately eager to give Juliet a certain amulet and to shove her out the side door of the shop.

This time, the child who stumbles upon the Magic Shop is a painfully shy sixth-grader called Juliet Dove, whose defense mechanism of striking out with devastating sarcasm has earned her a reputation as a stuck-up jerk and the nickname Killer. While trying to avoid a confrontation with a girl whose feelings she recently hurt, Juliet blunders into Mr. Priest and their immortal vermin friends, Jerome and Roxanne, the talking rats. Elives and his Magic Supplies shop, as well as Ms. As recently as 2003, this fifth book came out, once more featuring Mr. I was mistaken when I said that the Magic Shop Books were complete in four books. I think if I had been reading it, I would have put it down before I got to the good part, I am sorry to say.Purchase here The full-cast recording is nice, although one of the rats has a very annoying high-pitched voice. I was nonplussed by this book until I got about halfway through and discovered that the plot had a lot to do with gods and goddesses. With the help of a couple of enchanted rats, Juliet must break the spell that the necklace has put on her. Juliet discovers that the locket she's been given was previously owned by Helen of Troy, there's some powerful magic at work in it, and she can't take it off. Then she notices all the boys at school seem suddenly smitten with her. First, her best friend Arturo seems to be paying more attention to her looks and he's saying strange things to her. But when she puts it on, she discovers something strange happening.

When the lady at the shop gives it to her, Juliet is surprised, but pleased. One day when running away from two girls at school, Juliet finds herself at the Magic Shop and she's drawn to a beautiful amulet. So shy, in fact, that she uses sharp words to keep others from paying attention to her (which is how she's earned the nickname 'Killer'). Although no one at school would believe it, she's painfully shy.

Juliet dove queen of love by bruce coville