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A review by roseleaf24
The Future of Us by Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
4.0
I read this book in one day. It is 1996, and Emma gets her first computer as a gift from her father. Josh, her best friend though their relationship has been tense since she rebuffed his desire to be more than friends, brings over an AOL CD-ROM that he'd gotten in the mail, offering 100 free hours of internet service. After the download and initial start-up, Emma finds herself signed in to her Facebook page 15 years in the future. Of course, she has no idea what she's looking at to begin with, but as she figures in out, she and Josh deal with the weight of seeing their futures and having the ability to change them.
While the charactes, setting, romantic plotlines, etc. are all good, it's not an extraordinary book beyond the premise. But the premise had me entranced. It helped that I, like Emma, was in the high school class of 1997. It was fascinating to think about what my high school self would think of my Facebook page: seeing how my life has turned out, who I'm still friends with, whose names are absent. This is a book that has caused me to look at my life in a slightly different way.
While the charactes, setting, romantic plotlines, etc. are all good, it's not an extraordinary book beyond the premise. But the premise had me entranced. It helped that I, like Emma, was in the high school class of 1997. It was fascinating to think about what my high school self would think of my Facebook page: seeing how my life has turned out, who I'm still friends with, whose names are absent. This is a book that has caused me to look at my life in a slightly different way.