Forget Tomorrow (Forget Tomorrow, #1)

by Pintip Dunn

Minority Report meets Legend when Callie has a vision of murdering her sister. Held prisoner for a crime she has yet to commit, she fights a government hell-bent on making sure the future becomes reality.
In a futuristic world the entire society is built around memories being sent back from the future. On their 17th birthday everyone will receive a memory that will help sculpt who they will be in the future. When Callie receives her memory, it isn't one of her changing the world. Callie is gifted with the vision of her murdering her younger sister, Jessamine.

Arrested for a crime she has yet to commit Callie finds herself brutalised and held in the hell that is known as Limbo, a place where they keep people whose vision shows them breaking the law. While being held, Callie is tested on and finds out that the government are holding, torturing, and then making these people live out their vision.

Once they are forced to commit their crime they are killed. This is the fate in store for Callie, but it's so much worse, because if the government finds out that Jessamine is gifted, they'll take her and do tests on her. Callie is saved from her fate though by Tony, a boy she knew years before.

Tony helps break her out of prison and takes her to a camp of outsiders who have each run from civilization and the future memory they were given. But running doesn't change the future and Jessamine is still taken and tested on by the government which sets off the motion of Callie returning to the city, but will Callie save her little sister or be forced to complete her memory of the future and kill her?

• ISBN10: 1633752380
• ISBN13: 9781633752382
• Publish Date: 3 November 2015
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 30 March 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
• Imprint: Entangled Teen
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[nannah]

Ahh, I wish I liked this book more, because I really felt a connection with the author and loved the book's concept. I stumbled upon a blog interview with Pintip Dunn and read about how she had wanted to be an author ever since she was little, and how she valued diversity, etc., and just have wanted to read a book by her for a while now. Unfortunately, this book just didn't live up to the expectation I may have built up in my head for her.

Book content warnings:
abuse
rape

Every person receives a "future memory" on their seventeenth birthday: a brief snippet of their future sent back by their older selves to help guide them through life. In Calla's case, her future memory does less to guide her and more to condemn her to a life behind bars. She's sent to Limbo, a prison for people who haven't committed crimes yet, but whose future memories prove them to be criminals. But she doesn't stay long. When her crush from four years ago breaks her out, she becomes part of something much bigger than future memory, Limbo, or the people running it.

This book has so much potential. There's some great science fiction time travel content that's really intriguing, but unfortunately all that content takes so much of a backstep to the book's romance I think it could probably fill about twenty pages of the book's 336. Not that all the romantic plot/development isn't great, but it felt like the publishers/editors/(someone else?) were either pushing Pintip Dunn to finish/wrap up her story fast, hence cutting short the actual plot and plot elements.

Much of the first half of the story was extremely well crafted and paced. I sympathized with Calla and her problems, personal and larger-scale, and even felt drawn to her love interest because she was drawn to him. But as the book passed the halfway point things began to feel rushed, and then really rushed, and then really rushed (like again, her publishers or something needed her to meet a deadline or maybe a shorter word count [?]).

The minute the climax ended, the book ended. It led to such a jarring stop that left me feeling so unsatisfied, and I get that it's a first book, but it still needs to have some sort of ending! Also, Calla's motivation for everything in the book is her little sister, Jessa. But at the very ending, she kills herself in front of Jessa. WHY would she risk giving her sister such awful PTSD by doing it right in front of her?? I get that it's dramatic and all, but if she loved Jessa so much, that's just ... you don't do that (and I'm speaking as someone who has PTSD myself). I just can't get over this. I can't.

I don't know if I'll be continuing with this particular trilogy, but I will definitely try something else by Pintip Dunn.

[bookishzelda]

Forget Tomorrow is definitely on my top Sci-Fi YA list. I really loved this book and the direction it takes Science.

We are living in the future but the it’s not so drastically different that it’s not doable. There are no strange creatures roaming about that they have to stay inside protective walls. A large majority of people are actually living content lives. It’s those who realize the price of future memories and having special abilities that have their eyes open to what is going on. Callie keeps her head down because she doesn’t want to draw attention to herself, which would then draw attention to her sister Jessa. Callie has seen what can happen when she witnessed Logan’s brother being taken away. When Callie receives her unexpected memory it puts into motion a chain of events that makes her realize she is a lot more connected then she realizes.

I love how much Callie follows her own heart. So many books have me frustrated with the main character when they do the, I have to ignore my feelings for you to protect you. Callie, even though she has those thoughts in her head, also knows how to embrace the moment. How to love openly and trust that she can find a way to protect someone by doing that. Which includes her sister. She fights until she is out of options, it doesn’t matter if it seems hopeless to begin with. She exhaust every other option first.

Logan, oh sweet Logan. How can you not love him, I definitely love him. He is so adorable with the admiration of Callie he has. He cares about her and doesn’t really hid it. I love it, I love him. He has some guilt about his brother and tries his best to repent. He also can’t control how he feels though and it’s so great.

One thing I love is the unpredictableness of the ending. It could go at least three ways that I could think of but you don’t really know how it’s going to turn out. Well let me tell you, I can’t talk about it because you need to read. I definitely need the next book now though.

There are so many things to love in this book but it’s one of those that I don’t want to spoil so I’m not going to delve into too many things. If you like Sci-fi, read it. If you like it romance, read it. If you like a good book, read it.