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Plot
Shakespeare's novel,Romeo and Juliet was all wrong. Everyone knew Romeo was supposed to be with Rosaline. Yet Juliet still decides to come and steal him away from Rosaline. It's not like she did it intentionally, in the beginning. In Rebecca Serle's, When You Were Mine, her take one Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet, States how the love story was supposed to go.

Rosaline Caplet, the protagonist, is in love with Rob Monteg, her childhood best friend. When school starts again and Rob comes back from his job as camp counselor, feelings begin to stir up again. Soon though, Juliet, Rosaline's cousin, comes back to town, quickly stealing Rob out from under Rosaline's feet. All goes down hill from then. "He's holding her. His arms are around her back and her head is on his shoulder, and they're swaying slowly, so slowly they look like they're not even moving." Rebecca Serle writes in her novel. Rosaline is heart broken, though she might not know it yet, she is. Days pass by and Rob moves on to Juliet. They start dating. The show must go on, as they say. The school production of Macbeth soon starts to be in motion. Rehersals begin. Rosaline joins in order to be close, learning that Len, the schools "bad boy", is on the light crew with her. Things start happening and soon Len is asking Rosaline on a date. Confessing his true feelings for her. She soon starts getting closer to Len, who is her "beacon of light," according to Magan.

Style
Rebecca Serle says that the thing that inspired her most to write this book was her own heartbreak. It's sort of like a journal into what happened to Rebecca. As we all know, this book is like a plot twist to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Rosaline, the main character is supposed to end up with Romeo, not Juliet. As Rebecca was supposed to end up with her, now, ex boyfriend. Rather than her ex boyfriend ending up with the girl he left her for.