Do you ever hear a song on
the radio and wonder who it was written about? When Audrey's
ex-boyfriend's band comes out with a new hit single called "Audrey,
Wait!" Audrey is thrust into the spotlight. Now the music-loving witty
teenager is forced to deal with her 15 minutes of fame and all the good
and bad that comes along with it while trying to live an ordinary life
just hanging out with her best friend and crushing on her cute
co-worker.
For the most part, this entire novel was very clever
and witty. From the story to the one-liners to Audrey's thoughts, it was
very entertaining but perhaps a bit too much so. Don't get me wrong I
loved it and how smart it was, but sometimes I felt like it was so smart
that it wasn't realistic.
The idea behind this book really was
adorable and the characters were all very interesting and life-like
(except for their extreme levels of wittiness). What I didn't get was
why all of America cared so much about what Audrey was up to. I really
enjoyed the book but if the tabloids were going crazy about the subject
of a hit song then I would probably just ignore it all. It was nice that
Audrey wasn't bitter, as were the heroines of the few other books like
this that I've come across. Audrey was happy with who and where she was,
she wasn't begging for attention and she wasn't desperate for a guy who
wouldn't look at her twice.
4.7 stars
California high school
student Audrey Cuttler dumps self-involved Evan, the lead singer of a
little band called The Do-Gooders. Evan writes, “Audrey, Wait!” a
break-up song that’s so good it rockets up the billboard charts. And
Audrey is suddenly famous!
Now rabid fans are invading her
school. People is running articles about her arm-warmers. The lead
singer of the Lolitas wants her as his muse. (And the Internet is
documenting her every move!) Audrey can't hang out with her best friend
or get with her new crush without being mobbed by fans and paparazzi.
Take
a wild ride with Audrey as she makes headlines, has outrageous amounts
of fun, confronts her ex on MTV, and gets the chance to show the world
who she really is.
On
a perfectly ordinary evening, twins Sheridan and Taylor get sucked
through some sort of time portal and end up 400 years in the future with
no way home. They find themselves in a domed city with no animals, a
strange dialect of English, and psychedelic fashions that look kind of
ridiculous to their 21st century eyes. Their only friends, or at least
the only people they can converse with, are two linguists who have
studied the 21st century dialect, a father and son duo who explain that
the girls were brought into the future by accident when a group of
scientists tried to bring a famed 21st century physicist instead. The
girls are warned about the totalitarian government and a mafia-esque
Dakine group who will surely be after them as soon as they find out
about the girls from the past. Taylor and Sheridan know that they need
to get out of the city as soon as they can, and must put their faith and
trust in the mysterious Echo, the linguist's son who has his own
reasons for trying to escape.
The time travel concept behind this
book was a lot more unique than I expected, probably because there was
almost no hope that the girls would go home. It was fascinating to have
twins be the main characters, instead of what would have usually been a
pair of best friends or a girl and a boy who would end up together at
the end of the novel. Furthermore, having two points of views-one from
the present past and one from the future present truly showed all sides
of this new era that that book takes place in. From Sheridan's POV we
saw the world as we would see it, and from Echo we saw it as those who
were born in it do.
Before I get to the things that I love I'm
going to get the things that I didn't love out of the way as fast as I
can. The romance was a bit too fast for my taste. Sheridan and Echo were
making out after knowing each other for how long? My other
disappointment was not in the author, but in me as I couldn't really
remember the names of half the characters (mostly villains). I was able
to follow the story and I knew who most of the important people were but
at some point I started putting all the government villains into a
folder in my head labeled "all seem like the same person so don't waste
brain cells on them".
Now for some particular things I loved
about this novel. The jawdropping moments were just that-jawdropping. I
actually got out of bed to go discuss it with my sister because of how
shocked I was. I can usually predict these things in books so it was
nice to be completely surprised and then look back to realize all the
hints. The sisterly love between Sheridan and Taylor was also very
sweet. They understood that they were all each other had left and stuck
together through everything. Needless to say it was very heartwarming.
4.8 stars
When twins Sheridan and
Taylor wake up 400 years in the future, they find a changed world: domed
cities, no animals, and a language that's so different, it barely
sounds like English. And the worst news: They can't go back home.
The
twenty-fifth-century government transported the girls to their city
hoping to find a famous scientist to help perfect a devastating new
weapon. The same government has implanted tracking devices in the
citizens, limiting and examining everything they do. Taylor and Sheridan
have to find a way out of the city before the government discovers
their secrets. To complicate matters, the moblike Dakine has interest in
getting hold of them too. The only way for the girls to elude their
pursuers is to put their trust in Echo, a guy with secrets of his own.
The trio must put their faith in the unknown to make a harrowing escape
into the wilds beyond the city.
Full of adrenaline-injected chases and heartbreaking confessions, Erasing Time
explores the strength of the bonds between twins, the risks and rewards
of trust, and the hard road to finding the courage to fight for what
you believe in.
