While Josh's future life, as seen on his Facebook page, doesn't ever seem to be a bad one, just changes in the number and sexes of his children, Emma's never seems to live up to what she wants. Since then Emma has had several boyfriends, none that seem to last long. But when he went in to kiss her, she pulled back, and made it clear she didn't want that with him. Until one night Josh thought that Emma might have more feelings for him, the same kind he had for her. The sad thing is that Josh and Emma have been best friends for years and years. Josh on the other hand seems to be married to one of the most popular girls in the school, up until now, he's not really hung out with her. Now Emma has a new husband, and may or may not be pursuing her dream job of marine biology. This does send a big ripple through time, if we are to believe that this Facebook page is really from the future. So she finds this person in real life and makes sure that she will never hook up with him. Emma notices that her husband is first gone fishing, then missing and presumed to be cheating on her, and soon she's very unhappy with him it seems. Turns out that little things they do or decide to do changes what shows up on their Facebook page. And Facebook wasn't even really invented till 2003, so obviously there is no way these 16 year olds could have logged onto Facebook. The funny thing is, when they log on, they find a website called Facebook, and it seems to be their own Facebook pages, from 15 years in the future!! So that's 2011. Two teens in 1996, Emma and Josh get online with Emma's first computer, using a phone line, and the old America Online CD-ROM that Josh has brought her. While the topic is way less serious than Asher's first book Thirteen Reasons Why, it was one that intrigued me as soon as I heard about it. This is Jay Asher's 2nd book, and I'm still a huge fan! This is the first book of Carolyn Mackler's that I've read.

The future of us by jay asher