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amym84's review against another edition
4.0
Originally posted at Vampire Book Club
Note:This review assumes you've read the two previous books in the trilogy. Read at your own risk if you haven't.
It’s been a full year since Elena first got involved with the Aether Corporation and agreed to go into the future under the guise of bringing back useful technology. It’s been six months since Elena and the survivors from the first trip were sent again into the future to bring back another time traveling team and barely escaped with their lives…again.
Now, Elena and her boyfriend Adam, along with the other travelers, just want to move on and lead normal lives. Which is easier said than done with Elena looking over her shoulder waiting for the Aether Corporation to make another appearance. It doesn’t help matters that Adam is acting increasingly guarded and strange. Ever since bringing back Genicote—his future cure for cancer—Adam has become increasingly withdrawn into his research trying, and failing, at making the cure viable. When Adam goes missing one day, Elena knows who to point the finger at: Aether.
Elena will once again be sent into the future, this time to save Adam, but once she gets there she discovers a world ravaged by a deadly virus. A virus most likely originating from Genicote. They’ll have just one last chance to save the future, and they better make it count because there’s someone in the present who doesn’t want them to live to see the future.
Here we are at the end of the trilogy, and I feel like we’ve been here before. I don’t really know if that’s fair considering this is a book about time travel. Maybe it’s better to say that I feel as though the reasons the characters keep going back again and again were getting a bit taxing. I kinda wanted to scream at them: STOP GOING TO THE FUTURE!!! Because every time they do something bad happens, and it becomes a rinse-repeat scenario of them either trying to fix it in the present, or go back to a different future and fix the problems there. Part of me wonders if this was a conscious decision on Elizabeth Briggs’s part. There’s definitely a feeling of finality in everything that transpires in Future Lost.
I do give Elizabeth Briggs major props for keeping each travel sequence unique, showcasing all the varied ways the future can come to fruition. They all seemed plausible and most had both their good and bad parts (except maybe this last iteration). I like how the future sequences are always quick and pulse-pounding whereas the present is more evenly paced, and oftentimes drawn out, that is, until we get to the ending where all bets are off.
Elena is still at the center of our story of course, and she leads us out the same way. I like how much she’s grown from impulsivity to actually taking the time to consider her actions, and when they’re not necessarily the best, taking full responsibility.
Elizabeth Briggs brings a satisfying end to the trilogy with Future Lost. I liked the clever way she ties everything back to the first book where all the action started. Despite the feelings of repetition, overall, this is an entertaining trilogy that does a great job with all the twists and turns that are encased within time travel.
Note:This review assumes you've read the two previous books in the trilogy. Read at your own risk if you haven't.
It’s been a full year since Elena first got involved with the Aether Corporation and agreed to go into the future under the guise of bringing back useful technology. It’s been six months since Elena and the survivors from the first trip were sent again into the future to bring back another time traveling team and barely escaped with their lives…again.
Now, Elena and her boyfriend Adam, along with the other travelers, just want to move on and lead normal lives. Which is easier said than done with Elena looking over her shoulder waiting for the Aether Corporation to make another appearance. It doesn’t help matters that Adam is acting increasingly guarded and strange. Ever since bringing back Genicote—his future cure for cancer—Adam has become increasingly withdrawn into his research trying, and failing, at making the cure viable. When Adam goes missing one day, Elena knows who to point the finger at: Aether.
Elena will once again be sent into the future, this time to save Adam, but once she gets there she discovers a world ravaged by a deadly virus. A virus most likely originating from Genicote. They’ll have just one last chance to save the future, and they better make it count because there’s someone in the present who doesn’t want them to live to see the future.
Here we are at the end of the trilogy, and I feel like we’ve been here before. I don’t really know if that’s fair considering this is a book about time travel. Maybe it’s better to say that I feel as though the reasons the characters keep going back again and again were getting a bit taxing. I kinda wanted to scream at them: STOP GOING TO THE FUTURE!!! Because every time they do something bad happens, and it becomes a rinse-repeat scenario of them either trying to fix it in the present, or go back to a different future and fix the problems there. Part of me wonders if this was a conscious decision on Elizabeth Briggs’s part. There’s definitely a feeling of finality in everything that transpires in Future Lost.
I do give Elizabeth Briggs major props for keeping each travel sequence unique, showcasing all the varied ways the future can come to fruition. They all seemed plausible and most had both their good and bad parts (except maybe this last iteration). I like how the future sequences are always quick and pulse-pounding whereas the present is more evenly paced, and oftentimes drawn out, that is, until we get to the ending where all bets are off.
Elena is still at the center of our story of course, and she leads us out the same way. I like how much she’s grown from impulsivity to actually taking the time to consider her actions, and when they’re not necessarily the best, taking full responsibility.
Elizabeth Briggs brings a satisfying end to the trilogy with Future Lost. I liked the clever way she ties everything back to the first book where all the action started. Despite the feelings of repetition, overall, this is an entertaining trilogy that does a great job with all the twists and turns that are encased within time travel.
lpcoolgirl's review
5.0
Man, this was so great, loved how things were resolved, it was so entertaining to read!
kate_and_books's review against another edition
3.0
This is just my opinion.
I was stoked when I got this book and I think that my expectations were just too high. I don’t really know what to say about this book.
The plot is solid with the Black Friday virus but see my mini rant below. It is well written but there was too much time travel going on. Less in this case would have been more. But the author does a great job of portraying an awful future with dire consequences.
The main characters were difficult to stomach because they did such idiotic things. I really didn’t like Elena in this book and Adam with his obsession wasn’t much better. It was fast paced and when I’d thought we’d finally be getting somewhere the pace would slow down to a crawl.
After all the time travelling that they did a epilogue would have rounded the book off completely for me at least.
Mini rant here.
In this day and age, I am fed up of Nazi’s being a reoccurring trope as the bad guys. I mean for Christ sakes do you really know the meaning of the word and how much pain, sorry and hatred is connected to this word. These types of organizations in America cannot be considered as Nazi’s they are white supremist. Consider the culprits in the book to be something else I mean I don’t know how about inland terrorism.
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vikingwolf's review against another edition
5.0
This is the final book in the Future Shock trilogy and I really enjoyed all of them!
It is a year since Elena's first trip into the future and six months since she rescued the people who are now her friends.They are vigilant in case Aether is still following them but CEO Vincent appears to be keeping to his world. Elena is taking no chances and is making sure that she, Zahra and Paige are getting training at a gun range so they are ready for anything. It is Adam who is creating the most worry for Elena by dropping out of his studies to obsessively seek to perfect the cure, causing fractures in their relationship. When she confronts Vincent about secret meetings with Adam, he is forced to admit that Adam insisted on a solo mission into the future-but he never came back. Elena now has to confront her fears and go into the future again to find him.
The future that Elena finds is unlike anything that she has ever seen before and she realises that Adam has been changing the future due to his poor decision making in their present. Now she has to rely on help from Future Selfs to not only rescue Adam to fix things back in the present, but to see how she can stop this horrific future from ever becoming a reality.I wasn't sure if the idea of constant time travel would get old as the books continued but I was pleased to note that every single visit to the future is different because of little changes in the present that don't look important. It seems strange to think that something simple like trying to get to a cure quicker than you originally did so you can save people, can end up killing billions around the world. I loved seeing all these different timelines and changed futures through the books.
I enjoyed seeing a lot of the same characters again. I liked the new people that were introduced during the second book and was pleased to see that they were back in surprising ways in this one. It was nice to see Wombat again! I find that character so interesting! The character that I'm really enjoying is Vincent. He is a lot more complex than I expected him to be and it was fun to see several different versions of him through the plot. I must admit that I really could shake Adam at times. He has obviously learned nothing from trying to rush the timeline in book two and this time his mistakes lead to catastrophe.
This time, the future ahead is as grim as Elena could imagine and the story touches on a future apocalypse with mutated infected people, and survivors banding together and trying to survive. When Elena discovers how the apocalypse begins, she knows she has to do whatever it takes to prevent the terrorist attack from happening to ensure that everyone she loves will have a future. I liked the change in direction from the saving themselves in book one, rescue missions in book two to the trying to save the world issue in book three. It added new layers of interest to the series and I very much enjoyed each adventure.
I like that there is no complicated science to bog down the story. I don't need to know how the time travel works, just that it does, so it was good not to have pages of tech to plough through. This is a story about how every little decision we make can change the future in so many ways, as well as being about relationships and doing what it takes to keep loved ones safe. I'll check out wht else the author writes to see if it would suit me as her storytelling in this trilogy was very enjoyable.
It is a year since Elena's first trip into the future and six months since she rescued the people who are now her friends.They are vigilant in case Aether is still following them but CEO Vincent appears to be keeping to his world. Elena is taking no chances and is making sure that she, Zahra and Paige are getting training at a gun range so they are ready for anything. It is Adam who is creating the most worry for Elena by dropping out of his studies to obsessively seek to perfect the cure, causing fractures in their relationship. When she confronts Vincent about secret meetings with Adam, he is forced to admit that Adam insisted on a solo mission into the future-but he never came back. Elena now has to confront her fears and go into the future again to find him.
The future that Elena finds is unlike anything that she has ever seen before and she realises that Adam has been changing the future due to his poor decision making in their present. Now she has to rely on help from Future Selfs to not only rescue Adam to fix things back in the present, but to see how she can stop this horrific future from ever becoming a reality.I wasn't sure if the idea of constant time travel would get old as the books continued but I was pleased to note that every single visit to the future is different because of little changes in the present that don't look important. It seems strange to think that something simple like trying to get to a cure quicker than you originally did so you can save people, can end up killing billions around the world. I loved seeing all these different timelines and changed futures through the books.
I enjoyed seeing a lot of the same characters again. I liked the new people that were introduced during the second book and was pleased to see that they were back in surprising ways in this one. It was nice to see Wombat again! I find that character so interesting! The character that I'm really enjoying is Vincent. He is a lot more complex than I expected him to be and it was fun to see several different versions of him through the plot. I must admit that I really could shake Adam at times. He has obviously learned nothing from trying to rush the timeline in book two and this time his mistakes lead to catastrophe.
This time, the future ahead is as grim as Elena could imagine and the story touches on a future apocalypse with mutated infected people, and survivors banding together and trying to survive. When Elena discovers how the apocalypse begins, she knows she has to do whatever it takes to prevent the terrorist attack from happening to ensure that everyone she loves will have a future. I liked the change in direction from the saving themselves in book one, rescue missions in book two to the trying to save the world issue in book three. It added new layers of interest to the series and I very much enjoyed each adventure.
I like that there is no complicated science to bog down the story. I don't need to know how the time travel works, just that it does, so it was good not to have pages of tech to plough through. This is a story about how every little decision we make can change the future in so many ways, as well as being about relationships and doing what it takes to keep loved ones safe. I'll check out wht else the author writes to see if it would suit me as her storytelling in this trilogy was very enjoyable.
lazygal's review against another edition
1.0
The book failed the "can you get away without reading the first book?" test. Had I read it, I might have cared about the characters but as it was... DNF. Plus, the multiple timelines part? Just didn't make sense.
ARC provided by publisher
ARC provided by publisher
aly36's review against another edition
3.0
I have not read the first two books in this series. But I didn't feel too bad, because I didn't feel too lost. I think I would've benefited from reading the first two books first, though. I don't usually like a lot of time travel and Sci-fi but this book not bad. Elena and Adam were characters I liked so I think that helped. *This book was given to me for free at my request from Netgalley and I provided this voluntary review.*
wildflowerz76's review against another edition
3.0
I received this as a digital ARC from Edelweiss for an honest review.
This was a satisfying conclusion to the Future Shock series. I flew through all three of these very recently. This series, as a whole, has a little bit of everything. There's love, friendship, time travel, science fiction...and even another element that I will omit so as not to spoil you. It's a super fun series.
I have to admit, that the bad guy lacked motivation and the constant time travel, as it does, got to be terribly confusing in the end. But overall, I definitely enjoyed this series.
This was a satisfying conclusion to the Future Shock series. I flew through all three of these very recently. This series, as a whole, has a little bit of everything. There's love, friendship, time travel, science fiction...and even another element that I will omit so as not to spoil you. It's a super fun series.
I have to admit, that the bad guy lacked motivation and the constant time travel, as it does, got to be terribly confusing in the end. But overall, I definitely enjoyed this series.
delaneybull's review against another edition
4.0
This book didn't feel super necessary, but it was interesting to see how it all wrapped up.
rmthomas0616's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
isabellav12345's review
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25