fun, fast, and hard to put down... ( )

Loved it! Loved that it was set in the 90's... love the he said, she said style of writing. The facebook thing was a little weird, and I guess I kind of knew where the book was heading, but I was ok with it because this was just such a cute book.
So far that's 2 books by Jay Asher that I thought were really unique. He has good ideas... ( )

With an incredibly sweet story, this book was touching and had an interesting glimpse to the butterfly effect.

I really enjoyed this one, and it left me with that strong feeling of love that makes your heart clench a little bit. Though it wasn't particularly complex or deep, it was a very well told love story.

Seeing the two with their various goals and desires was intriguing, and though the whole book was leading in one specific direction, I still had the urgent desire to read to find out what would happen. The conflicts between the two felt very real.

I loved Josh as a male YA character--he seemed to stand out from the crowd and though his voice felt real, he also didn't feel like the stereotypical jock guy that a lot of central YA boys do.

It was also fun seeing what people might have thought about Facebook upon seeing it today. I feel like Emma was also growing up in her various futures.

The ending was obviously predictable, but this didn't take away from how incredibly sweet it was. I may or may not have shed a few tears.
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2.5 Stars ( )

The premise of this book - teenagers in 1996 getting a glimpse of their future lives fifteen years later, via a mysterious website that showed up on Emma's computer called "Facebook". And then they discover that things to do in the present can alter the future.

I loved 13 Reasons Why, so had high hopes for this (I had never heard of Carolyn Mackler before this). Unfortunately, 13 Reasons Why is an impossible act to follow. The Future of Us doesn't have nearly the emotional oomph that Asher's previous book did, and on the surface is pretty shallow. There is some deeper, introspective stuff towards the end but I had to wade through te teenage angst (mainly on the part of Emma) first.

Good book. Didn't blow me away. I liked the premise, but ultimately felt a little unsatisfied about the execution. I liked Josh's character but Emma's annoyed me - how many times can I roll my eyes and tell a fictional character to get over themselves? A fair amount, it turns out.

I was also really unsure just who the target audience for this book was? The young adult crowd doesn't remember 1996, either because they were too young or didn't exist. Adults in their late 20's/early 30's (I'm raising my hand here) would get way more out of the pop culture references - though the timing of some were a little off (CDs weren't quite on the market yet, and there was no way cell phones could have fit into jeans pockets at that point). And all the pop culture references will date the book pretty quickly. ( )