Overall Rating: 2 stars
Addiction Level: I
read it when I had spare time.
Believe-ability: The setting was believable.
I wanted to like The Future of Us, because I loved 13 Reasons Why. The message behind 13 Reasons Why made me want to see what else Jay Asher had in store
in The Future of Us. I was interested in this story, because I had
AOL dial-up in the 90s. In fact Emma and
I were both juniors in 1996. Relating to
the story was easy.
Emma gets AOL and is able to logon
to a futuristic Facebook. Every time she
and Josh log on, some aspect of their future changes. They attempt to discover how to change the
future.
It is hard to tell where the story
fell apart. The story is told in
opposing viewpoints between Josh and Emma.
I appreciate how that was crafted as each chapter picks up where the
last chapter left off, but I had a difficult time distinguishing between their
two voices. They were too similar.
I was halfway through the book
before I became engaged in the story. It
was interesting to see that everything they did had an effect on the
future. However, nothing really pulled
at my heart strings. I was not invested
in the characters.
It seems the moral Asher and
Mackler wanted us to learn was obvious from the beginning: Don’t mess with the future; worry about
today.
I was hoping for more. Next time I might not pick up one of his
books so easily.
Good to know what not to put at the top of my to-read list.
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