Waking Romeo

By Kathryn Barker and Kathryn Barker

Book Overview

Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel Year: 2083. Location: London. Mission: Wake Romeo. 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?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250174104
• ISBN13: 9781250174109
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary