The second book in the New York Times bestselling Future Shock trilogy!Six months ago Aether Corporation sent Elena, Adam, and three other recruits on a trip to the future where they brought back secret information–but not everyone made it back to the present alive. Now Elena’s dealing with her survivor’s guilt and trying to make her relationship with Adam work. All she knows for sure is that … her relationship with Adam work. All she knows for sure is that she’s done with time travel and Aether Corporation.
But Aether’s not done with her–or Adam, or fellow survivor Chris. The travelers on Aether’s latest mission to the future have gone missing, and Elena and her friends are drafted into the rescue effort. They arrive in a future that’s amazingly advanced, thanks to Aether Corporation’s reverse-engineered technology. The mission has deadly consequences, though, and they return to the future to try to alter the course of events.
But the future is different yet again. Now every trip through time reveals new complications, and more lives lost–or never born. Elena and Adam must risk everything–including their relationship–to save their friends.more
Future Threat is the sequel to Future Shock, and it is a YA time-travel thriller with romance.
Six months after traveling to the future, Elena and Adam have settled into college and into dating. Then the organization forces them to travel back to the future to rescue a team that has gone missing — as if it wasn’t dangerous enough the first time.
Future Threat was a pretty interesting story. When the characters go back to the future, choices they made in the past have changed the future into something new. That brings the characters to ask several questions: do I like this future? Do I want to change it? What happens if I accidentally change it if I want to keep it? They try to find the answers to these questions and to change their mistakes as they race thought time to find the other team and prevent any deaths.
This book was quite the thrilling story too. The characters not only have to face the complications of time travel, they also have to fight against known and unknown enemies who are trying to kill them. It was pretty cool.
The only thing I didn’t appreciate about the book, and it is a personal preference, was that it wasn’t entirely clean. It is a teen book, though some of it I would have preferred to be put into an adult novel rather than a teen one.
Still, it was an enjoyable story and I give it 4 stars.
I received a complementary copy of this book. All opinions are my own, and I was not obligated to give a positive review.
Elena and Adam have traveled to the future several times, initially as part of a team hired by a tech firm, Aether Corporation. Each time they have traveled, they have seen different visions of what their future would be like, and those future’s keep getting more and more grim. After things went wrong in the previous novel, Future Threat, Elena and Adam and their friends are determined to never make that trip to the future again, but Adams search for the cure to cancer becomes and obsession. When he disappears one day, Elena finds out that he took a trip back to the future again, alone.
Future Lost does a great job of subtly recapping the previous two novels into the plot, so I could quickly become engrossed in the plot and root for Elena to finally find security and happiness in her life. When Adam goes missing I knew where he went and eagerly looked forward to seeing what their future world looked like now. Without getting into the intricacies of the plot, I’ll just say “Apocalyptic” would be a good description.
Elena is an easy character to root for. She’s led a tough life and has found happiness with Adam and seen a future that she is willing to fight towards. Hope is one of Elena’s greatest characteristics, but unfortunately she has to set it aside and go back to a darker place using some of her darker skills to fight the Aether Corporation and save her future. Adam starts off this novel in a darker place than Elena and it’s interesting to see how her initial hopefulness and his desperation to find the cure for cancer seem to run on a parallel path to each other, only meeting when her hope turns to desperation and his desperation to hope.
Future Lost was the darkest of the three novels but that glimmer of hope ran through the story like a grain of gold waiting to be mined. The plot took me on a journey of feelings, despair, desperation, sadness, love and most importantly that hope. On any other novel I may have felt the conclusion was a little too perfectly wrapped, but I think the feeling of calmness I felt was a kind of conviction that the characters finally found themselves in the right place, at the right time. Their happily ever after stretching out in front of them.