Book Blurb:
It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind.
Among them are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo lies in a coma and Jules is estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance.
Then a mysterious time traveler, Ellis, impossibly arrives from the future with a mission that makes Juliet question everything she knows about life and love.
Can Jules wake Romeo—and rewrite her future?
My Review: 3.5 stars
Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker piqued my interest as it was a futuristic, dystopian, loose retelling of Romeo and Juliet with a splash of Wuthering Heights mixed in. Yes, that is a lot to fit in to a book under 384 pages, but amazingly, it was done.
I really liked this book, however it took a lot of concentration and suspension of reality. I’m a fan of time travel and am always looking for something different to read. This definitely checked the box in that regard, yet there were times I had no idea what was going on. Of course, as I plowed along, things started to come together and suddenly made perfect sense.
For fans of YA fantasy and retellings of classics, I think you’d be able to dive right in and enjoy. For those of us looking to expand our reading repertoire and go out of the box, I’d definitely give this a try. Successfully written storyline and after finishing, was definitely glad I read it.
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