Angie
Future Shock is fun, exciting, and diverse! Elena is approaching her eighteenth birthday, which as a foster kid means she'll soon be broke and homeless unless she can find a job. She's having no luck, but then someone from the Aether Corporation asks her to participate in a study. She figures she'll watch some videos, take some surveys, and then get some easy money. Nope. She and four other teens are being sent into the future to bring back information on technology. That is, if their minds survive the trip.
Time Travel is one of my favorite things, and I think Future Shock does it really well. It's definitely a more simple version than I've read previously, but it works. Basically, Aether Corporation created a molecule accelerator. They set it, shove something through, and it goes forward in time. Then they come back when the portal opens a set amount of time later. There is no backwards travel! That would create too many problems and just isn't possible. Maybe that's a cop-out, but it makes perfect sense to me.
Future Shock is super fast-paced and I never got a chance to get bored with it. Elena and the other teens arrive in the future, and things are not at all how they expected it. No one is there to greet them, and things are just generally completely different from the present time. Obviously this means that things aren't exactly on the up and up, and these teens aren't stupid so they try to learn what's going on and what happens to them. It's all very suspenseful and I never guessed at what was coming next!
Future Shock has a few twists and turns, so I don't want to accidentally give those away. Just know that this is a really fun and quick read. Nothing too outrageous happens, and everything felt plausible. The only thing that kind of annoyed me was that there are no chapter breaks. There's a short section set in the present, then most of it is in the future, and then a short section back in the present. Luckily I was able to read it in one sitting anyway.
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