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I really enjoyed the way this book was put together. The two points of view. The story. The facebook.

I liked the little tid bits the authors put in about the time period. I remember getting those AOL Free Trial CDs in the mail. I used a few as frisbees and made a few hover crafts from others.

The characterization of each character was deep for the minimal about we saw many of them. I liked his brother and wanted to know more about his story.


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The Future of Us Jay Asher Carolyn Mackler 9781595144911 Books Reviews

"The Future of Us," by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, was a book I had high hopes for. Though I'm not familiar with Carolyn Mackler, Jay Asher is the author of "13 Reasons Why," a groundbreaking book on suicide and how even the little things we do, the little way we interact with others can have profound impacts on their lives.

"The Future of Us" is a different sort of book, more of a romantic comedy than anything, but also a serious book that deals with issues of fate and what if anything should be done if we had knowledge of the future. The premise is that Emma and Josh, friends living in the 1990s, discover a portal to something called Facebook when installing AOL on Emma's computer.

As someone who was a teenager in the 90s, I appreciated all the pop-culture references, from dial-up modems hogging the phone line, to listening to Green Day's Dookie and Dave Matthews. After a while the references get to be a little too much and all of the references will go over the head of any teenager reading the book today.

As Josh and Emma explore their future selves, or what they can discern about their future selves via Facebook, they realize that even the littlest changes in their current lives can have a massive impact on their future lives.

Though "The Future of Us" did not have the emotional impact of Jay Asher's other book, it was an enjoyable read with mostly intelligent kids making good decisions.
I picked this up after reading "13 Reasons Why", which is a fantastic read and I was looking for more well crafted writing. This disappointed on several levels. The concept was interesting...if your teenage self could log on to your Facebook account today, would they be satisfied with your life choices or be tempted to change them? This is the story of Emma and her best friend Josh. Aol is in vogue and Emma somehow finds her way on to her Facebook account circa 2012. In her dissatisfaction with her life, she makes adjustments with her relationships and life changing decisions so her Facebook status would reflect a more positive life. What she fails to realize is her negative attitude is pervasive in her present and reflected in her future.

Good concept. Poor execution. The writing is flat and repetitive and I would not recommend it.
I had just gotten done watching 13 reasons why, and wanted more, so I picked up the book. I immediately fell in love with the way Jay writes. I blew through that book in under a day and was looking for something else of his to read. This popped up on and I read the description. Happen in the mid to late 90s, but with a look to the future through a website called Facebook. All the years matched up with my life. I to was in high school in the mid 90s. I loved all the references to that time, it truly brought me back to that time. This was yet another quick read, but just as awesomely written. Every other chapter is from one of the 2 main characters point of view. I really enjoyed it and have since ordered the 3 Jay Ahor book. His writing style is something that keeps even someone like me turning pages, and it takes a lot for me to want to read something or not get disinterested and stop.
This book was great. There was a strong connection with the characters. It was one of those books that made you sad when it came to an end as you want to know what happens next. I wish there was a sequel.
If you follow my reviews then you know that contemporary is not really my thing. I have said it before, but my life is contemporary. So I want my books to be fantastical and take me somewhere completely different. So then why am I reviewing a contemporary book today? That would be the fault of Susan from Wastepaper Prose. The two of us were driving to a conference and she said she was going to put in an audiobook. I love listening to them, so I was game. I asked her which one and she said Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (review here). She said it was a contemporary and that I would thank her later. I inwardly (and probably outwardly too) cringed and braced myself for the book. I can say now though that Susan was 100% right, Thirteen Reasons Why was amazing! I don't know how he did it, but Jay Asher captured all of my attention and I was the one begging Susan to put the book back on after we would take breaks, just so I could hear what happened. My point to this little story is that I will read pretty much anything Jay Asher writes from now on. So, when I saw there was a book coming out that he co-wrote I knew I had to read it.

The Future of Us, is a story about two friends, Josh and Emma. They live next door to one another and have been best friends for a long time. They had a recent falling out, but start to weave back into each other's lives more when Emma gets a new computer. One day, Josh brings an AOL CD-ROM to Emma and when she signs on she discovers her Facebook page. Now this is 1996, Facebook has not been invented yet, so neither of them knows what it means exactly. However, when they start exploring, they realize this page tells them about what they are doing fifteen years in the future!

Emma is the more uptight of the two and does not like the future she sees for herself. She is constantly trying to do things in the present to change how she ends up in the future, but winds up never being happy with the outcome. Josh was more laid back and found out his future looked pretty good. He doesn't want Emma meddling with everything and screwing it up for him. The two of them are beyond cute together, I kept rooting for Emma to wake up and realize how great Josh really was! Sometimes it is hardest for us to see the wonderful things are right in front of us, and Emma is a perfect example of this.

This book has also made me look at Facebook in a whole new light. Imagine it is 1996 and I stumble across Facebook, what would I think? I was a freshman in high school in 1996, so I would have been about the same age as Josh and Emma. Would I have liked what I saw? I know I am happy now, but what if I saw before how things would have turned out, would I have changed anything? This book just made me think about how might have handled this situation. The idea of discovering your future opens up a whole world of possibilities; would it be a good thing or a bad thing? That is the question that Josh and Emma explored in this book.

I am a huge fan of getting to see the main female and male protagonists' point of view. We got that in Thirteen Reasons Why and now again with The Future of Us. Something about that style of writing always draws me in more. I think it is mostly because guys and girls think differently, if you ask them both to tell the same story, you will get two different versions and I like exploring both of them. I also like that since I listened to this book, I got to hear Emma read by a female and Josh by a male. Sometimes they have one person do both parts, but not with this book. It was a great way to differentiate between the chapters and I enjoyed knowing at all times whose eyes I was seeing the story from. Typing this now I can still clearly hear both of the voices running through my head. I don't think this book will leave me for a long time. Kinda like how Thirteen Reason Why is still with me. These books are hard to forget.

I can't finish this review without mentioning some of the awesome references in it. It was the year I entered high school, so all of the pop culture acknowledgments that made it into this book were things I could easily relate to and had me laughing out loud. My favorite show for example, Friends, makes an appearance, as well as my first CD, the Green Day Dookie album, and a Discman! Do you remember those things? I remember when I got my first one, it was one hundred dollars and it skipped when I ran with it. Little details like this just made the book that much more enjoyable for me.

Overall, this was a fantastic book. I actually found myself driving the long way home every day, just so I could hear more from this story. If you grew up around this time, then this book would be perfect for you. If will take you back to when you were this age and make you wonder how you might handle the situation Josh and Emma found themselves in.
I really enjoyed the way this book was put together. The two points of view. The story. The facebook.

I liked the little tid bits the authors put in about the time period. I remember getting those AOL Free Trial CDs in the mail. I used a few as frisbees and made a few hover crafts from others.

The characterization of each character was deep for the minimal about we saw many of them. I liked his brother and wanted to know more about his story.