Future Shock - Elizabeth Briggs

Future Shock (Future Shock #1) – Elizabeth Briggs (2016)

(4 / 5)

I was after something light and entertaining. Maybe a little romance and adventure.. So I went to the trusty goodreads recommendations to see what the algorithm would point out to me, and I came across this one. I have never read anything by Elizabeth Briggs before and the synopsis sounded exactly like what I was after so I thought I would give it a go. I listened to the audio version of Future shock and I must say it was SO GOOD! Thoroughly fun and entertaining!

Elena who has a eidetic memory and 4 other gifted teenagers are selected by a mega corporation to travel forward in time 10 years and bring technology back to the present. However something goes wrong and they end up in a fight for their lives.

What an exciting read! Lots of action and adventure, and TIME TRAVEL! It was like a mini YA cross between ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Minority Report’.

I’ve gone off YA a bit lately, I’m getting a bit sick of the teenage angst – but I am really glad that I found this one. Although there was a bit of angst still, but what YA doesn’t have a little bit with the young characters, who are learning what life is about. Apparently Elizabeth Briggs writes a lot of romance and raunchy stuff normally, and this was her first attempt at YA and I must say I am impressed with her writing! It was so easy to get into and I really enjoyed the characters and the twists and turns.

The story was very clever and the romance was cute. I had a few minor issues with Elena and some of the silly decisions that she made, and the rationales behind some of her actions, but overall it was a great story and I am looking forward to reading the next one!

The audio version was very well done. Erin Spencer did a great job at the narration! 7 hours was a nice break from the 27+ hours of fantasy novels I’ve been listening to lately!