‘To think, there was a time where Facebook didn’t exist? The internet wasn’t a thing?! Mind blown.’
My love for Jay Asher’s writing began when I first finished Thirteen Reasons Why, a phenomenal novel on so many levels. I was completely unaware that he’d written this with Carolyn Mackler until, behold, I walked into a library and borrowed it. Needless to say I was expecting the best, and got… high-level mediocre.
In the golden year that is 1996, Josh and Emma have been friends their whole life. Until recently, when things got… awkward between them. But then Josh’s family gets a free AOL CD in the post, and his mum makes him invite her over to install it on her new computer. They sign on, but when they sign on, they’re automatically logged into their Facebook pages, from 15 years in the future. With every refresh they see a new update from the future, and what they do now affects it. This is the story of how they learned what they do today always affects the tomorrow.
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