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Fast Forward
What if you skipped 26 years of your life?
When the small plane she’s in crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, high school senior Natalie Raider disappears. Her friends and family assume she’s gone. Then she reappears, almost 30 years later...and she’s still somehow 17 years old.
But the world has gone on without her, leaving her completely out of place and isolated. Gone is big hair that entraps low-flying bird species; gone are stirrup pants and The Smurfs; gone are Michael Jackson and international goodwill for America.
Instead, she’s in a culture of flash mobs, high-tech cars, texting dates, school violence, and social media piranhas who are eager to eat her alive.
Worse, a secret left unaddressed from the past has now snowballed into a problem that could cost Natalie everything. The choice is hers: Adapt to the new world, or make a sacrifice that could fix her timetable and make things right. But is it worth losing the new love she’s found in the present...and any hope for a future at all?
When the small plane she’s in crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, high school senior Natalie Raider disappears. Her friends and family assume she’s gone. Then she reappears, almost 30 years later...and she’s still somehow 17 years old.
But the world has gone on without her, leaving her completely out of place and isolated. Gone is big hair that entraps low-flying bird species; gone are stirrup pants and The Smurfs; gone are Michael Jackson and international goodwill for America.
Instead, she’s in a culture of flash mobs, high-tech cars, texting dates, school violence, and social media piranhas who are eager to eat her alive.
Worse, a secret left unaddressed from the past has now snowballed into a problem that could cost Natalie everything. The choice is hers: Adapt to the new world, or make a sacrifice that could fix her timetable and make things right. But is it worth losing the new love she’s found in the present...and any hope for a future at all?
216 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 2015
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January 9, 2016
Agh, that ending though!
I totally got a Back To The Future vibe when reading this book. It was like how I imagine Marty McFly would act if he came to the "future" aka the 2015 of now from 1985. As for in Fast Forward, Natalie Raider was somehow thrust from her time in 1986 to 29 years in the future to 2015 and things are waaay different for her. The present is confusing for her with the things that we think are absolutely normal for us: our hairstyles, clothing/fashion, TVs, cell phones, the social media, and basically everything.
Seeing everything through her eyes was interesting and somewhat hilarious at the same time. It was a great learning experience for Natalie, and at least she had Holden and her old friends Kevin and Amy who are now in their 40s, the same age she would be if she had only aged and hadn't stayed looking like she was 17 years old!
At first it seems more like a time traveling story and then like an alien abduction story but it was actually something different than what I was expecting and I didn't see it coming. I felt caught up in the story and I was very invested in Natalie and Holden, I wanted Natalie to get her answers and for her to finally be happy after all she went through.
Although it's probably not likely, I wouldn't mind if there's a sequel to Fast Forward just so we can see how Natalie has adapted to living in the 21st century and how her future is after all the event from FF.
I totally got a Back To The Future vibe when reading this book. It was like how I imagine Marty McFly would act if he came to the "future" aka the 2015 of now from 1985. As for in Fast Forward, Natalie Raider was somehow thrust from her time in 1986 to 29 years in the future to 2015 and things are waaay different for her. The present is confusing for her with the things that we think are absolutely normal for us: our hairstyles, clothing/fashion, TVs, cell phones, the social media, and basically everything.
Seeing everything through her eyes was interesting and somewhat hilarious at the same time. It was a great learning experience for Natalie, and at least she had Holden and her old friends Kevin and Amy who are now in their 40s, the same age she would be if she had only aged and hadn't stayed looking like she was 17 years old!
At first it seems more like a time traveling story and then like an alien abduction story but it was actually something different than what I was expecting and I didn't see it coming. I felt caught up in the story and I was very invested in Natalie and Holden, I wanted Natalie to get her answers and for her to finally be happy after all she went through.
Although it's probably not likely, I wouldn't mind if there's a sequel to Fast Forward just so we can see how Natalie has adapted to living in the 21st century and how her future is after all the event from FF.
April 12, 2016
Full disclosure: I'm friends with the author.
If you were a teen in the 80s, you will get a kick out of this book. It's both a walk down memory lane and a fast forward to the future (er, more like to today). Just think of all of the things that have changed and what your then-teen-self would have thought about it all!
It's a fun, fast read!
If you were a teen in the 80s, you will get a kick out of this book. It's both a walk down memory lane and a fast forward to the future (er, more like to today). Just think of all of the things that have changed and what your then-teen-self would have thought about it all!
It's a fun, fast read!
March 8, 2016
Intriguing plot with likeable well-developed characters. Fun to see how the main character managed to find herself. Good read!
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