Waking Romeo

Name: Waking Romeo
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Kathryn Barker
ISBN: 9781250840400

Author: Kathryn Barker

Narrator: Grace Cooper Milton, Tashinga Bepete

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners

Published: 01/04/2022

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, Romance, Dystopian

Synopsis

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?

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

About Kathryn Barker

Kathryn Barker lives in Sydney, Australia, with her family. She has spent a lifetime exploring the magic of the universe through storytelling. Her first novel, In the Skin of a Monster, was published to high acclaim in Australia, winning the Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Waking Romeo is Kathryn’s second novel, and the first to be published in the US.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla

This time pretzel is making me thirsty. Kathryn Barker has turned some tried and true classic storylines inside out and upside down. My brain hurts, but in a good way. Have you ever yearned for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to be redeemed? What about the bad boy Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights?......more

Goodreads review by Miya (severe pain struggles, slower at the moment)

Sooooo not what I was expecting! Honestly I didn't have high hopes, but this was so good! Dystopian wuthering heights hits smack into romeo and juliets. I do know how she did this. Mind boggling, tear jerking, page turning, surprisingly wonderful. Thank you for bringing something good to this wacky......more

Quotes

“Original, ambitious, powerful. Barker’s ability to challenge the boundaries of genre and find light in the darkness is a gift.” —Melina Marchetta, Printz Award-winning author of Finnikin of the Rock

“The most beautiful, moving, and rigorously plotted time-travel novel I have ever read.” —Justine Larbalestier, author of My Sister Rosa

“A genre-bending masterpiece that effortlessly juggles classic literature, existentialism, time travel, and dystopia—with action and feels. I freaking loved every minute.” —Lili Wilkinson, award-winning author of Pink

“Waking Romeo is a stunning reimagining of the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet—meets Wuthering Heights, meets epic time-travelling extravaganza. Highly recommended for fans of science-fiction and timeless love stories.” —Books + Publishing (Australia)

“This brilliantly clever story brings together myriad dystopian futures, the concepts of fate and existentialism, and a disorienting but engaging tale of love and time—but not in the way you may first think. A fun read for fans of classic literature turned on its head, this is a spectacular genre-twisting tale.” —Claire Atherfold, Readings State Library (Australia)

“Waking Romeo is like nothing you have read before. It spans genres, adding twist upon twist you’ll never see coming. If you love dystopian, science fiction, and/or time travel YA, this one is completely, utterly, 100% for you.” —Kids’ Book Review (Australia)