The Future of Us

location: home

mood:  undecided

watching: You've Got Mail

music: none

The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

Release Date:  November 21, 2011

Publisher: Razorbill

Age Group: Young Adult

Pages: 356

Format: Hardback
Source: Bought
Intrest: Young Adult
Challenge: 2011 Reading Challenge
Buy the Book: Amazon 

It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail,his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn't been invented yet. And they're looking at themselves fifteen years in the future.

By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right - and wrong - in the present.

I have been eagerly anticipating the release of this book for quite some time. So you can imagine when it released Thanksgiving week, I quickly snatched it up at a local book store on Black Friday.  Many of you may know that I work in retail, so after a crazy day, I was looking forward to coming home and escaping into The Future of Us, and escape is just what I did!

The Future of Us is told from two different perspectives, Josh and Emma. While this sort of story telling typically irritates me (generally because, for me anyways, mass confusion usually ensues) however that was not at all an issue here! The story flowed seamlessly without any confusion or hesitation.

This book was so entertaining to read. Growing up in the 90's I remember when the internet was new, caller ID had just come out, and the days of the first cell phones! Remember those HUGE ones that had an entire battery pack attached by a long chord? Do you even remember what people used before cell phones? Pagers, and a quarter to use the nearest pay phone. Ahhh those were the days!

Aside from the laugh out loud funny moments, and the fun entertainment, The Future of Us brought up some interesting questions. If you could find out what your life would be like 15 years in the future, would you? If you did, would you deliberately do things NOW to change what will happen later?

I'm not quite sure what I would do myself. But you can pick up a copy of The Future of Us and find out exactly what Josh and Emma would do!

The Future of Us is a hillariously amazing, 90's flashback with a twist! I loved this book so much that I didn't want it to end! I loved every minute of it right down to that very last page, and was sad when it ended!

Jay Asher and Caroly Mackler, two stunning authors on their own, worked well together and created one of my absolute favorite reads of the year! So make sure you pick up a copy, you won't regret it!