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The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
4.0

I found this gem at the Dollar Tree! I loved the first four books in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, (I have yet to read Sisterhood Everlasting,) so I was pretty sure I would enjoy this book by the same author. Upon reading the back of the book, I realized it was kind of a dystopian type book, which I also love, but wasn't expecting from this author. As I began to read, I realized it was also a bit of Sci-Fi with some Time Travel going on.

The characters in the book must determine what incidents need changed and how much to change in order to help the future instead of hurting it more. This is a theme that keeps coming back to me, about how one event can cause a huge impact on the future. The thing is, while it would be nice to change somethings in our pasts that maybe weren't so pleasant, we don't know what that would do to our current lives and would we be willing to risk what we have now to change what happened then?

The dystopian aspect comes in with the "Rules" that all the travelers are supposed to follow. If you don't follow the rules, horrible consequences are doled out. The leaders in charge are surely totalitarian and since they've formed their own kind of government, that creates a dystopian world for those who came back in time.

I recommend this book for people who love Ann Brashares, those who enjoy dystopian, and/or those who enjoy time travel fiction.