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I am pretty sure the only Ann Brashares books I had read before this ARC [Advance Reader Copy] were from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants<\/em> series.\u00a0 It looks like I never posted about them on my book review blog, though, so I can\u2019t simply link to what I thought of them. \u00a0Instead, I will quickly summarize by saying that they are basic contemporary \u201cchick lit\u201d books.\u00a0 They primarily dealt with friendship, dating, and body image \u2014 and they were both realistic and well written enough that I\u2019m not surprised to see that they\u2019re still popular. While this book was also well written and has a romantic element to it, it was VERY different in that it has a science fiction angle.<\/p>\n Prenna James is an immigrant, but she didn\u2019t come from another country \u2014 she came from another time. She, along with the rest of the people in her tight-knit community, traveled back in time from a future in which global warming had destroyed the world. Warmer temperatures melted the polar ice caps, caused massive floods, and also allowed mosquitoes to thrive. Even though cancer had been cured, human existence was threatened by a blood-borne plague reminiscent of AIDS. Prenna\u2019s time-traveling community has many rules, but the most important rules are to blend in, to avoid making any changes to \u201cthe past,\u201d and to avoid intimacy with outsiders. Despite worries about getting in trouble, Prenna has a hard time following the rules. She just can\u2019t understand how they can just sit by and watch people destroy the world instead of trying to make a difference. Plus, of course, there\u2019s the fact that she\u2019s falling for an outsider named Ethan\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am pretty sure the only Ann Brashares books I had read before this ARC [Advance Reader Copy] were from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.\u00a0 It looks like I never posted about them on my book review blog, though, so I can\u2019t simply link to what I thought of them. \u00a0Instead, I will … Continue reading The Here and Now by Ann Brashares<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}