User:Alexx noel/sandbox

Plot
Following Rob and Juliet starting to date, Rose's friends create a master plan to break them up. Len, a long time enemy of Rose and her friends, turns into a friend for Rose when she needs it the most. He gives her advice such as saying, "Sometimes the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them." (128) Rose is completely convinced though. She tells herself over and over that "he was the one."

Reception
Critics, such as the creators of Book Harbinger, claim that When You Were Mine is an easy read but is, "thoughtfully done." Others, like Sophie, are disappointed with this novel. She states that it, "didn't live up to [her] staggeringly high expectations." Some people liked the book as a whole but did not like certain parts within the whole. "That pissed me right off," Rowena says while talking about how Olivia and Charlie react to Rose's heartbreak.

Background
There was a lot going on in Rebecca Serle's life at the time she wrote this book. "I had just been dumped, or left, or forgotten -- all three work the same," Serle claims when speaking of her life before she wrote the novel. She was hurting and broken. Thoughts started to wander towards Romeo and Juliet. "You see, When You Were Mine asks the question "What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?" And in my own life, three years ago, I was asking myself the same thing," is what Rebecca Serle starts to state.