It was hard to put the book down, because I needed to know what happens to Leo and Naomi! I thought he was living in Ancient Rome (yes, that was how clueless I was), and I did not really know what was going on? When I started reading Naomi's POV I began to understand what was happening and from then on I was hooked. To be honest, I didn't really connect with Leo at the beginning. Apparently galaxy backgrounds and Wi-Fi were two of my favorite things back when I was in the fifth grade.) The cover is so beautiful! I love galaxy backgrounds <3 (My old Wattpad account username was galaxywifi. Sure, I enjoyed reading Your One and Only by Adrianne FInlay and Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, but sci-fi in general is not my type of book? (Ugh what am I talking about please ignore my rambling.)
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