The Here and Now (2014) (Hodder Children's Books)Ann Brashares
Grade: C+
Genre: young adult / time travel
Source: own / NetGalley
General RBC 2015: A book set in the future
Follow the rules. Remember what
happened. Never fall in love.
These are the most important
rules of Prenna’s community – the rules that she knows she must abide by if
they’re to blend in and appear normal. Ethan is the first and only person who
makes Prenna want to risk revealing her community’s secret: that they’re from
another time … In the future, a mosquito-borne disease is rapidly killing huge swathes
of humanity. The early twenty-first century is identified as a ‘safe haven’
where those who have managed to avoid the disease can start over. But the
restrictive rules about never revealing where they’re from, never dramatically changing
the course of history and never being intimate with someone from outside their
community are put to the test as Prenna and Ethan are drawn into a course of
events that has the potential to destroy the world – and history – as they know
it …
