When you have read a book six months ago and, yet, it still
resonates with you today, you know that you’ve read a great book; All Our Yesterdays is that book for
me.
In the not too distant future, Em is being held in a secret
government facility. She has papers
describing a machine that can send people back in time (in order to change the
future) and Em has been imprisoned and tortured by “the Doctor” who wants her
copy of those plans. The future has
become a nightmare; the Doctor is using the machine to change the past and
amass power for himself. Personal freedoms and rights have been set aside in
the name of “security” and America has become a police state. But, Em can change it. All she has to do is go back in time. But, she has gone back and tried 14 different
solutions to fix the future. None of
them have worked. This is her last
chance and all she has to do is the unthinkable – kill the person she loves
most in the world.
In general, I dislike time travel books, but All Our Yesterdays got such great
reviews I thought I would try it. And,
this books proves that time travel isn’t that bad – if there is logic and good
writing behind the plotline. The ending
of this book is a little convoluted and I wondered if the teenagers this book
was intended for would understand it.
But, once you get past it, it makes total, logical sense. This book presupposes the reader is
intelligent enough to take the actions at the climatic moment of the book ,
backtrack, and apply those changes to a “new” past/present. Will teenagers get it? The popularity of this book says they do.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It has action, it has heart, it has teenage
angst, and it has a love story that isn’t quite love and doesn’t quite end up
the way you thought it would when you started reading. It also makes you think, “If you had the
chance, would you go back in time and try to change to past in order to change
your present? Would you kill to do it? Would you kill the person you loved the most
in the world to do it? Could you?”
Read the book, see what Terrill’s characters do, and then try
to answer that question yourself.
~Mary P.
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