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The Future of Us by Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
3.0

This was a fun, quick, YA novel that had a cool premise: what if you stumbled upon Facebook in '96, more than a decade before it's inception, and could see your future. Or more importantly, change your future. There were definitely some 'Back to the Future' elements at play. I thoroughly enjoyed the humor of the main characters experiencing Facebook for the first time. 'Why would anyone say these things to everyone they know?' 'Who cares?' - that type of stuff. Being of a similar age in '96, I could also easily identify with them and the world they lived in. But the main female character is kind of clueless and infuriating, which seems to be an unfortunate trend in many YA romance novels.