Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Plenty of action; a true page turner.  I haven't read Finnikin of the Rock and while Froi stands alone as a book, I would have had more background information had I read the first of the Lumatere Chronicles.  Still I was not disappointed.



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The Future of Us by Jay Asher

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


If you had the chance to see what your life would be like 15 years in the future, would you take it?

It’s 1996, and high school junior Emma and her neighbor Josh are best friends until an awkward, romantic moment creates tension. Then Emma gets a new computer and an AOL CD-ROM, which somehow allow her to access her future Facebook page when she goes online. She and Josh are able to read about what their lives will be like in 15 years, but what’s more, they discover that they can affect those future lives by their thoughts and actions in the present; everything they do in the present has an immediate impact on their lives in the future. Unfortunately, they don't always like what they see.

Can the two teenagers rewrite the future? Should they try?




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