Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker

Waking Romeo by Kathryn Barker

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?

Kathryn Barker and her family live in Sydney, Australia. She's spent her life telling stories about the wonders of the universe. In the Skin of a Monster, her first novel, was released to critical acclaim in Australia and won the Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. Kathryn's second novel, Awakening Romeo, is her first to be published in the United States.