The Here and Now

author: Ann Brashares

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.27

book published: 2014

rating: 3

read at: 2015/04/15

date added: 2015/04/15

shelves: young-adult

review:

'The Here and Now' is a book about time travellers from the future. Books like this sometimes work and sometimes don't. This one falls into the sometimes don't category, but it's not for lack of trying.



The first time Prenna James meets Ethan Jarves, she doesn't remember, but he does. She is newly arrived from the future and a bit disoriented. When they meet again in high school, there is something about him that seems familiar, but she's not supposed to get too close to him because it's against the rules. That's a clue that she's probably going to break that rule by the end of the book.



Prenna's future is one with a bad plague and lots of death, so the rules make sense, but there are things that don't. Why bring school age kids back if they're only going to do teenager type things? In spite of what seem to be rigid control freaks, how is Prenna able to get free so easily? There are other things, but it'll just make me sound nitpicky. Prenna is a strong heroine. Ethan may be about the most hormonally normal teenage boy I've read in books. I liked the premise, but the execution left me wanting something when it was all done.



I received a review copy of this ebook from Random House Children's, Delacorte Press, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.





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