All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
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You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed...because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before his life gets turned upside down. Utterly blindsided by and accident of fate, Tom makes a rash decision that drastically changes not only his own life but the very fabric of the universe itself. In a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016, what we think of as the real world. For Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland. But when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and-maybe, just maybe-his soulmate, Tom as a decision to make. Does he fix existence, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy, unpredictable reality? Tom's search for the answer takes him across countries, continents, and timelines in a quest to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his future-our future-is supposed to be.
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When I read the synopsis of this book I was all over it, time travel? Heck yes. Someone screwing up our timeline and trying to fix it? Double heck yes! But, the more I read this book the more bored and disappointed I was with it. Tom as a character was boring, the more I read about him the more I didn't want to know about him. He had zero character development. From the beginning he was screwing up his life and I'm okay with that, I read tons of books and lots of characters start like that, but he just kept screwing things up more and more and more until the very end. He is the POV of this book and I didn't connect with him, so...that ruined the whole book for me.
Without trying to ruin and not spoil the book for anyone that wants to read the book, Tom lives in a 2016 that is all techno-utopian paradise, I mean you don't have to worry about a thing on this world, not even food. But Tom? He somehow isn't happy and he somehow isn't happy and doesn't find himself at all and just knows how to screw everything up. He ends up on a time travel assignment that brings him to where it all started and guess what? Yep, he screws up the whole world by going back. By the time he comes back to 2016, the world is not the same, but somehow is life is amazing, he has the perfect life that he has always dreamed of, the perfect soulmate and everything. But he starts to question if he needs to go back in time to fix the future again or leave it the way is What does he do? Well, you will have to read it do find out.
What rating did I give this book? 3 stars, I enjoyed the science part of it but that's about it. Still disappointed it about it. I wanted more out of it...I did received an eARC from Netgalley.
XOXO,
Nelia
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When I read the synopsis of this book I was all over it, time travel? Heck yes. Someone screwing up our timeline and trying to fix it? Double heck yes! But, the more I read this book the more bored and disappointed I was with it. Tom as a character was boring, the more I read about him the more I didn't want to know about him. He had zero character development. From the beginning he was screwing up his life and I'm okay with that, I read tons of books and lots of characters start like that, but he just kept screwing things up more and more and more until the very end. He is the POV of this book and I didn't connect with him, so...that ruined the whole book for me.
Without trying to ruin and not spoil the book for anyone that wants to read the book, Tom lives in a 2016 that is all techno-utopian paradise, I mean you don't have to worry about a thing on this world, not even food. But Tom? He somehow isn't happy and he somehow isn't happy and doesn't find himself at all and just knows how to screw everything up. He ends up on a time travel assignment that brings him to where it all started and guess what? Yep, he screws up the whole world by going back. By the time he comes back to 2016, the world is not the same, but somehow is life is amazing, he has the perfect life that he has always dreamed of, the perfect soulmate and everything. But he starts to question if he needs to go back in time to fix the future again or leave it the way is What does he do? Well, you will have to read it do find out.
What rating did I give this book? 3 stars, I enjoyed the science part of it but that's about it. Still disappointed it about it. I wanted more out of it...I did received an eARC from Netgalley.
XOXO,
Nelia
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