Pub Date: April 8th, 2014
Description:
An unforgettable epic romantic thriller about a girl from the future who might be able to save the world . . . if she lets go of the one thing she’s found to hold on to.
Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love.
This is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins.
Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth.
But everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves.
From Ann Brashares, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, The Here and Now is thrilling, exhilarating, haunting, and heartbreaking—and a must-read novel of the year.
First off: How legit is this cover? Seriously, everything is working really well for me on this one. The holographic type colors, the half sad face..I’m really digging it. I’m also thinking it will catch a lot of eyes on the bookshelves. Well done.
Secondly, I took a leap of face on this one because Ann Brashares is the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I have a really hard time with science fiction. My brain has a hard time processing time travel. It’s pretty much just waiting patiently for the next romantical scene. My brain enjoys teenage romance. I know..creeper status.
I have very mixed feelings about this story. I started off being really into it and really excited for where it was going. The unrequited love was really working for me. Prenna and Ethan had some GREAT tension going on. This may be my favorite paragraph/line from the whole book:
I don’t lie to Ethan, but I don’t tell him the truth either. I can’y. To share anything with him, even if I could, would put him in an impossible place. Already he is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.
There’s no doubt that Ann is an extremely talented writer. I really felt the emotion in this story. The tragedy and the sadness. But the thing that really threw me is the fact that I just didn’t understand a lot of what was going on. There would be this terrific line and then in the next paragraph I would be lost because we were talking about time travel again.
If there was a sequel, I would give it a try. Solely based on the fact that I really liked the relationship between Prenna and Ethan. But if you aren’t a fan of time travel/science fiction I don’t know if this is the story for you.
I give it 3 out of 5 stars!
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