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title = "Future Shock (Future Shock, #1) - Elizabeth Briggs"
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date = 2018-06-05
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "elizabeth briggs", "reviews", "future shock", "scifi",
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"3 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26722944-future-shock):
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Elena Martinez has street smarts, the ability for perfect recall, and a
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deadline: if she doesn’t find a job before she turns eighteen, she’ll be
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homeless. But then she gets an unexpected offer from Aether Corporation, the
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powerful Los Angeles tech giant. Along with four other recruits—Adam, Chris,
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Trent, and Zoe—Elena is being sent on a secret mission to bring back data from
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the future. All they have to do is get Aether the information they need, and
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the five of them will be set for life. It’s an offer Elena can’t refuse.
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{{ stars(stars=3) }}
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The basic plot is: A group of teens with special talents is chosen to go to
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the future but something something and then they are happily ever after.
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So... Yes, it's a time travel story, but it goes to the future instead of the
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past, which is something new for me. And there is a plot twist in the end, but
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it's not big. And the protagonists are teens and, even if it's explained why
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(with a bunch of technobabble, that is)... meh. And their "talents" are not
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that so important to the plot -- if they were some very clever adults, the
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plot would still work the same.
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But the writing is pretty damn good, even when it lags in the end and you feel
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you can jump whole paragraphs without missing the story. But it's not
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crumpled, and it's not full of useless descriptions.
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