This is a YA book that kept popping up in recommendations. It is by the author of 13 Reason Why and a female author that I haven't read. The plot is pretty intriguing. It's the story of a boy and a girl in 1996 who, while logging on to AOL for the first time, see their facebook pages from 15 years in the future.
I read this book in about a day because the chapters are really short and...it's pretty light, I guess. This book really bugged me because I felt like the authors kept inserting things from life in 1996 needlessly. For example, someone talks for about 2 seconds about wanting a beeper, the girl runs with a discman strapped to her arm, and her mom tapes Seinfeld on her VCR. These asides do not advance the plot and are just inserted to give a wink to older readers and to astound younger ones. Irritating. Also very irritating that one of the girls slips her 1996 cell phone into the pocket of her tight jeans. Really?! Pretty sure the first cell phone I owned in 1997 would never have slipped into any pocket I had.
If you have some extra time and want to see what happens to this couple, I suppose you could read this book, but it's not high on my list of must reads.
I read this book... oh, maybe at the beginning of this year? I liked it. I feel like your review only picked apart a few messy parts of 1996 and you didn't actually review the whole of the book - the relationship between the two main characters and what happens when they find their future selves.
ReplyDeleteI know it's easy to pull apart the parts you don't like but don't forget you should review the book as a whole.
A valid point. I didn't really talk much about the rest of the book...but I didn't really care much for the relationship between the two main characters either. I just focused on the irritants because that's a concrete reason I didn't care for the book. I'm not 100% sure why I didn't like the relationship...it just didn't speak to me. But I'm glad to have another opinion on here! Thanks for commenting!
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