Friday, February 3, 2012

The Future of Us

The book I read was The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. This book takes place in 1996 and two teens, Emma and Josh, discover Facebook and their future selves in 2011. I chose this book because Morgan Buck suggested it to me.(:

In the book, Emma is one of the few teens who have a computer in the '90s. Josh brings her a CD-ROM that leads them straight to Facebook. They see their future selves, who they marry, their kids, their friends' future lives and everything else that's happened within the 15 years. Although when they see information about themselves they don't like, they purposely do something drastic in their time period  to cause a chain reaction and have their future change as well. Romance between Emma, Josh and other characters plays a big role in the book, as well.

One  thing I like about this book was that it had to with Facebook, because I love Facebook.(: Also, that it still had a cute love story! One thing I didn't like is that the whole plot was just that Emma and Josh found Facebook and Emma didn't like her future so she purposely changed things to never make her marry him but it was written like it was an everyday life so it got really boring at times. Ages 14 and up would be appropriate for this book because the main characters are teenagers so there are drugs and sex and what not. But, the reading level would be appropriate for, like, 9 year olds;it was really easy to read. I wouldn't really recommend this book to anybody. The only interesting parts were that you could see the future and the romance.

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