jeansbookbag 's review for:

The Futures by Anna Pitoniak

2.0

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This had the potential to be a great book, but it didn’t quite get there. The premise of it really sounded good, and early on I quite enjoyed it. I could completely relate to feeling unsure of the world and terrified after graduation. However, in order for this to have really resonated and been great, I needed to feel empathy or sympathy or really anything other than disdain for any of the characters. Unfortunately, I didn’t. The main characters, especially Julia, are privileged, entitled, self-centered, and selfish and I didn’t like them. They made stupid choices, or in Julia’s case, no choices at all and still had everything magically dropped into their laps and/or fixed when there was trouble. I hated the Julia/Adam storyline, especially once what happened with them in college is fully revealed. I wish this had been better, but it’s not one I’d recommend unless you want to be extremely angry and depressed.