The Future of us

        Over the summer I have read a few books. One of these excellent books is The future of us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler. I wanted to respond to this book first because I thought it was the most interesting. In this gripping book about Facebook, two teens from the early nineteen nineties controlled their future. The most interesting distinction from this book and a lot of other books is the way that it was written. In The Future of us, each chapter was written in the perspective of one of two main characters. One chapter may be in the point of view of Josh, and the one right after is in the point of view of Emma. The book Flipped was also written like this.

        In the beginning of the The Future of us, Josh and Emma are neighbors who've been really close since they were babies but they stopped talking to each other when they grew up. Since this book is in the time period of the nineties, they didn't have high tech computers. Josh gives  Emma a present which is a CD-ROM to activate aol. The weird thing about the CD-ROM was that when Emma put the CD into the computer, was when the computer turns on Facebook. Facebook really wasn't invented until 2006! 

        The best part was the middle of the book. In the middle of the book you find out that, not only was it just Facebook, but it was Emma in the future fifteen years from where she was then. When she see's the statuses she writes in the future, she goes to school and slowly changes what her statuses are, meaning she slowly changes the future. The same thing with Josh. He just kept messing with the future, like changing the people he has married over and over.

        The ending was a predictable teen love story ending. It was kind of girly for me but i liked it. Josh and Emma liked each other and held hands at the ending.

        This was one of my favorite books I have read because it was a good mixture of technology and how teens actually think about situations. In conclusion The Future of us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler was a wonderful book and was one of the best books i've read in a while.