Name: The Future of Us
ISBN: 9781595145161

Jay Asher

Carolyn Mackler

The Future of Us

Jess

Read this review on my blog! --&gt; <a href="http://www.gonewiththewords.com/2011/11/review-future-of-us-by-jay-asher.html" rel="nofollow noopener">The Future of Us by Jay Asher &amp; Carolyn Mackler</a> There was so much I loved about this book! The nostalgia, for one, could not have been a more pleasant feeling. I loved reading about all those bands I love from the 90s!! What’s funny is that our girl Emma really loved Dave Matthew’s Band, which is probably the one band I could never really get into, lol. The boy-next-door/childhood-best-friend love interest that is Josh. Man, I loved Josh!! He was funny, artistic, nice, and cute. Who doesn’t love that? Josh loves Emma...Emma doesn’t know it yet, but she loves Josh too. I love reading about these kind of love stories, because haven’t we all wanted the boy-next-door to fall in love with us? When I read that they discover their future FB pages, I didn’t know what they would do with that. I was not expecting it to take Butterfly Effect turn, where if they change something in their present it changes something in their future, but it was really well done! I think one of the best parts were the reactions from Emma and Josh to Facebook. I would crack up at a lot of them! Here is one of my favorite examples:<blockquote>Josh Templeton Helped my son put together a model of the solar system today. May 8 at 10:26pm ▪ Like ▪ Comment Terry Fernandez We did that last year. Made me feel nostalgic for Pluto. That was always my favorite planet. May 9 at 8:07am ▪ Like Josh Templeton Poor Pluto! :-( May 9 at 9:13am ▪ Like I flinch. “What the hell happens to Pluto?” Emma shrugs. “That, I’m guessing, wasn’t our fault.”</blockquote>I couldn’t get enough of this story and these characters. This is such a feel good book; it made me smile and laugh and even cry a little. I know you’ll love it as much as I did, even if you didn’t grow up as a teen in the 90s, because the story and the relationships between friends and family transcend time.

Jaden Nelson

I don't have the energy to write all of my thoughts on this book so I will just say that it was a very cool idea, I loved the story, but I sort of felt like it was missing something the whole time. Still though, a very good book for anyone looking for a nice YA realistic fiction that is relatable. I would recommend this to my friends and I would read it again

Victoria

I honestly expected more from this. I was anxiously waiting for the climax of the story. And when that didn't happen, I was left waiting for a grand ending. But that didn't happen as well. In fact, I was left hanging on the cliff, wondering what the hell happened to Emma and Josh come Saturday or 15 years from then.

I'm giving this two stars merely because of the concept of the story. It was admittedly an utterly unique idea that very much intrigued me. The story though, it was just meh. The only thing that kept me going is the hope for an amazing end to the story or the hope that the end of Emma and Josh's life-changing week will be so incredible that I'm left staring into space just thinking about the story that I just read.

Jeannette Ordas

The novel takes place in the mid 90s, but time travels into the future through Facebook. I'm not sure how spilling water on the carpet effects the future or if the term "baby bump" was used back then, but it's a light and fun enough read. 3 stars, barely.

Lorenzo Barretta

** spoiler alert **
           I enjoyed it, though I did not really like the ending because it concluded the story sharply.

Sarah S

While I strangely liked the concept, I did not like the execution of said concept.

Rebecca Briesemeister

This was a very enjoyable read. The concept and ideas were really interesting and I found myself having a good time reading it. The idea of two teenagers from the 90's having access to Facebook and seeing their futures was really fun to read. This book deals with the constant dilemma of if you could see your future would you want to and while the characters liked it at first it quickly became a burden that they did not want or need anymore. The central theme that every decision you make can create a number of ripples for your future and those around you was very thoughtful. While I understand the ending of the book leaving with some cliff hangers (goes well with the theme of the story and the events that lead to the last page), I would've enjoyed a look into their futures.
I found a majority of the characters lacking in one way or another whether that was emotionally or just in seeming alive enough to be real.

Alexandra Mellas

There was so much they could do with this and I was quite disappointed. The references to the past aren't natural. I wasn't born until the nineties but I understood what it was like - I didn't need everything shoved in my face. 
They could have done a lot more with the story than they did; it fell short of the idea.

Brooke Barnett

I loved this book. Its a great scifi romcom.

This should be made into a movie.

Becky

This book was a nice easy read. It is nothing ground-breaking. it does make you think a bit about your future and how your choices can affect you but honestly I think the only reason I finished I'd that it was short and I did vaguely care about the characters. also I was I'll and it was a pleasant read to pass the time.

Kath Lau

Knowing what you'll be, 15 years from now, is an awesome thing but somehow scary. But I'm not sure if I'll do what Emma did. I won't even maybe check it for the second time even it's tempting because I don't want to ruin my future. This book is about friendship, "friendzoning" and loyalty. And it shows how our current decisions, both big and small, can affect our future.

Rebeca 

4.5 stars. 
This book was amazingly really good. It was a quick read and kept me wanting to get to the end quickly just to see how the story ends. Good way of describing Facebook and the "future". I think this has made one of my top favorite books that I've read in 2015.

Kourtney

This was a cute quick read that brought me back to my high school days! I don't know how anyone got anything done back then because if I had access to my Facebook page I would never leave!! I felt I could relate to some of the things that Emma was feeling when she was seeing herself in the future. What kept me from giving this book 5 stars was that in every scene where people were eating someone always had to "pop" food into their mouth. For some reason that annoyed me to no end.

Elad Schulman

This was exactly what I needed. I devoured this book in between my school assignments, and it was such a fun and enjoyable read, although it was slightly predictable.

Lacey

I really thought I wouldn't enjoy this book, but I did! A very interesting twist with Facebook. The beginning was a bit slow and I would have liked to have more at the end, but overall, I liked it very much!

Sina

Gute Idee, schlechte Umsetzung. Schade, mir hat's nicht besonders gefallen...

Caitlin Berger

This book was pretty good! I liked the concept and the plotline and how the chapters were divided into Emma's POV and Josh's POV. I found the story a bit simple, though. It wasn't boring but it wasn't exceptionally riveting.

It was a fun read and I'd recommend it but if you have other books to read first, go for it. It was average but not a bad read!