The Future of Us

Books | Young Adult Fiction / Technology

3.5

(517)

Jay Asher

Carolyn Mackler

Josh and Emma are about to discover themselves--fifteen years in the future 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 everything changed. Things have been awkward ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD-ROM 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 Facebook . . . but Facebook hasn't been invented yet. Josh and Emma are looking at themselves fifteen years in the future. Their spouses, careers, homes, and status updates--it's all there. And every time they refresh their pages, their futures change. As they grapple with the ups and downs of what their lives hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right--and wrong--in the present.

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Author

Jay Asher

Pages

368

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

2011-11-21

ISBN

1101548126 9781101548127

Ratings

Google: 4.5

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"This was a pretty weird book. It covers a lot of teenage feelings but the ideas didn’t always go together the whole time. I also didn’t really like the ending. The plot was good though. "

Bella Coulter

"The Future of Us is a solid, well-written young adult novel cowritten by the authors of Thirteen Reasons Why (a book I loved) and The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things. The novel has an interesting premise and several lessons to offer. It makes you consider what consequences your actions have on the future, the impact of your attitude on future events, the value of what you hold dear, the value of what you take for granted, and how much the relationships you have really matter. I think it has a special impact for me because I am familiar with memories of how the internet played out back in 1995 and currently. I'd recommend it to anyone that thinks they'd find the premise interesting, likes books about friends rediscovering their value to each other, and fans of either author. I enjoyed it, and I think you will too."

Megan

"Very weird book. Had a good premise and a good idea but it was all over the place. Things were brought up that never seemed to be resolved, other things were brought up that had no reason for being involved in the story at all and the ending...it was a nice idea, but it felt really really rushed and seemed to come out of nowhere. Maybe the author just ran out of paper, I have no idea. After I was done, I just sorta wondered where the rest of the pages (of an electronic book) had gone missing. I also never got to really caring about how the characters ended up either, the author did not get it to where you wanted to care about them."