Published by: Hodder Children's Books, January 1st 2015
Genre: YA, Science Fiction, Romance, Time Travel
Pages: 303
Format: Ebook
TIME TRAVEL AND FORBIDDEN ROMANCE FROM THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS
Thrilling, exhilarating, haunting and heartbreaking, The Here and Now is a twenty-first-century take of an impossible romance.
There are rules.
Never reveal where you’re from.Never be intimate with anyone outside the community.And never interfere with history.
Seventeen-year-old Prenna James emigrated to New York when she was twelve. But 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. Prenna does as she's told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth and take the lives of her younger brothers. But everything changes when she falls for Ethan.
She might be able to save the world ... if she lets go of the one thing she's found to hold on to.
This book wasn't terrible but the trouble was I just never cared about any of it at any point. I wasn't bothered about the characters, never connected to them, and because the book skips the 2 years where the main characters fall in love, the romance just felt flimsy, and I as a reader never fell for Ethan because I never read through Prenna doing the same. Another thing was this book had no real sense of urgency - there were less than 24 hours until the world went to crap, but they were out buying bathing suits and lounging on beaches and playing cards. It all felt distant, not dangerous or thrilling. But overall it's not a bad book - some parts are exciting, the time travel parts aren't bad, and I liked the whole controlling higher powers of Prenna's community thing, and kinda wish we saw more of this. That danger felt really vital and threatening at that point, until it suddenly petered off and didn't. The book went downhill from there, and concluded with a really un-fulfilling ending.
Like I said, it's not a bad book, but I wasn't impressed in the least.
Characters ★☆☆☆☆
Setting/world ★★☆☆☆
Writing ★★★☆☆
I don't think I made it past the first chapter with this one. Happy to see I didn't miss out on much.
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