Weren’t the 90s amazing? Which of us doesn’t think back to those fun moments filled with the Spice Girls blaring in the background and the Internet was still a novelty?
In The Future of Us, Asher and Mackler bring us back to 1996 with Josh and Emma who’ve been next-door neighbors and best friends their entire lives until last November, when everything changed. After a slight incident that resulted in them drifting apart, Josh’s family receives an American Online CD-ROM in the mail they have no use for. Consequently, he is forced to bring it over to Emma’s house to install it on her computer. When they sign on, they’re immediately logged onto Facebook… but Facebook hadn’t been invented yet.
They were looking at their lives 15 years from now and every time they refresh their pages, their futures changed.
This book was a refreshing read. It was fun, but suspenseful with a little romantic twist. It’s a story about what’s right and what’s wrong, and the decisions we make in our youth that affect our future. The authors, subsequently, remind us that we do in the present always affects the future. Written with dark humor, and astute observation of the teenage condition, The Future of Us is one of those books that you keep on a reachable shelf, so you could read over and over again.
The Future of Us- by Carolyn Mackler and Jay Asher
A book review by Azza El Masri
