I had seen this book forever on the shelf and never even picked it up to look at the back. But this summer, when I saw a nice hardcover on sale at a used bookshop, I picked it up. Asher's 13 Reasons Why is very popular with my student readers, so I took a look....I was instantly hooked!So, Josh and Emma are in high school in 1996. What's super cool for me is that this exactly when I started high school, and I must say the book was right on as far as time-period stuff goes. Anyway, when the internet really first started in people's homes, you would always get these free AOL discs in the mail. Tons of them! So when Emma gets a computer from her dad, she's all ready to set up her first email address and her IM account....(old school IM yall!) and she has Josh come over to help. She and Josh were BFFs forever but had an awkward I-like-you-but-just-as-a-friend moment earlier last year, and so things are a bit rocky. But they put the disc in and are setting it all up when they see this window for something called Facebook. But it's 1996...Facebook doesn't even exist yet. They actually end up seeing their own profiles in their own futures....and what they find is pretty interesting. Who are they married to? Are they happy? Did they finish college? Are they still friends? All of these questions surface as they start digging deeper into their futures. And then, once they start making choices during the year, they see that these changes affect their future profiles.
The book is told from alternating points of view, which is always fun. This keeps it fresh and also allows for you to see the story from multiple perspectives. It was a fun read because we can all think about what it would be like to get a glimpse into our futures. What would we do?? I liked the regular school stuff, too: parties, dates, sports, class, hallway conversations. It was all pretty fun and real. I recommend this to both guys and girls. If you like Facebook...that's a plus. You'll get a kick out of it!
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