Author: Kathryn Barker
Genre: sci-fi
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Summary (provided by publisher): 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?
My opinion: Barker has included some interesting elements here. The Romeo and Juliet framework turned out to be a bit of an unnecessary diversion, a complication that took up unnecessary space. More interesting is the approach to time travel. We see the destructive power of time travel. That can only be interesting for so long, though. The excessive complications of time travel and chaos in the world with constant nods to Shakespeare were a bit tiresome after a while. It's a book I'd recommend only to serious sci-fi fans.
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