The Here and Now
Ratings5
Average rating2
15
Ratings5
Average rating2
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.
Reviews with the most likes.
So this book started off pretty slow and didn't really pick up in action for me until the pages were in the hundreds. Many of the characters felt empty and one dimensional, and annoying. The one character that I thought could redeem the book ended up being pretty gross and scoff worthy majority of the time. The plot was so jumpy that I had to re-read sections to try and pick up something I was certain I had missed (pretty sure I wtf'd a more than a few times out loud) and extreme situations seemed to resolved themselves in a matter of paragraphs and felt like an afterthought.
This was my first taste of the time travel genre and this book kinda made me not want to visit again. The only reasons I pushed through to the end were 1. I think every book deserves a fair chance and 2. I have this horrible habit of not being able to quit a book once I've started reading it no matter how much I don't like it. Believe me, I've tried to stop.
Toward the middle of the book I had decided to give it 3 stars but after finishing it downgraded to 2. I wish I could have enjoyed it more because time travel really interests me but man this is just not the book.
