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|title=The Future of Us

|author=Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler

|reviewer=Nigethan Sathiyalingam

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-0857076076

|pages=368

|publisher=Simon and Schuster

|date=January 2012

|video=UKs74qAjDz8

|summary=The book's a little bland at times, but the concept is a fascinating one that drives the story forward at a lively pace.

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It's 1996 and Emma has just got a brand new computer and when her friend Josh gives her a free AOL CD he got in the mail, she looks forward to having an internet connection. However, she gets a lot more than she bargained for when the CD inexplicably gives her access to a website that appears to show her snippets of what is going on in her life, and that of her friends and family fifteen years into the future. The website's name? You guessed it: Facebook.

[[Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver]] also describes a narrator trying to discover who she wants to be, not via a Facebook page this time, but through an equally fascinating concept wherein she is forced to relive her last day over and over again. It comes highly recommended from The Bookbag, and I found it incredibly uplifting and poignant. If you enjoyed the writing style of ''The Future of Us'', I would recommend Jay Asher's [[Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher| Thirteen Reasons Why]], a haunting read where a girl who committed suicide leaves behind tapes explaining her reasons; in this case, the boy listening to the tapes can do nothing to change what has already happened, a stark contrast to the endless potential described in ''The Future of Us''.

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