{"id":3709,"date":"2014-06-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2014-06-02T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:04:08","slug":"here-and-now-by-ann-brasheares-book-review-time-travel-to-save-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"Here and Now, by Ann Brasheares (book review) &#8211; time travel to save humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Here-and-Now.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3904\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=3904\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Here-and-Now.jpg?fit=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Here-and-Now.jpg?fit=300%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3904\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Here-and-Now-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"book cover of The Here and Now by Ann Brashares published by Delacorte Press\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Here-and-Now.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Here-and-Now.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/21675-time-travel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Travel back in time<\/a> to stop disaster, but<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t stand out,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t be discovered,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t fall in love&#8230; easy, right?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s *that* Ann Brashares of Traveling Pants fame, but this is no summer friendship tale &#8211; the entire future of mankind is at stake!<\/p>\n<p>This April 2014 release should be easily found at your favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/libraries\" target=\"_blank\">local library<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-store-finder\" target=\"_blank\">independent bookstore<\/a>; if not, just ask for it!<\/p>\n<p>**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0 The Here and Now \/ Ann Brasheares.\u00a0 Delacorte Press, 2014. [<a href=\"https:\/\/annbrashares.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author blog<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/212953\/the-here-and-now-by-ann-brashares\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [silly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RpwF6nkmtF0\" target=\"_blank\">video interview<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My book talk<\/strong>: Sent back in time to prevent ecological disaster, Prenna couldn&#8217;t imagine that the Travelers&#8217; secrecy rules could endanger their mission or would be that difficult to follow &#8211; until she meets Ethan in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Just arriving the early 21st century might make their future worse, but the 200 youth and adults going undercover in their grandparents&#8217; past to stop the blood plague must risk it.<\/p>\n<p>Prenna tries to stay unnoticed at school, but Ethan recognizes her as the girl who fell from a strange storm cloud two years earlier, then walked away. His knowing comments to her plus subversive info from a homeless man show that the Travelers&#8217; secret isn&#8217;t complete.<\/p>\n<p>Why hasn&#8217;t Prenna&#8217;s father joined the group yet?<br \/>\nWhat do the numbers 51714 inked onto her arm mean?<\/p>\n<p>When the teens discover that the first Traveler to the past is planning to doom the future world to total collapse instead of just widespread disease and disaster, they have to act, regardless of the consequences to themselves in this time-travel romance thriller from the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. (One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel back in time to stop disaster, but Don&#8217;t stand out, Don&#8217;t be discovered, Don&#8217;t fall in love&#8230; easy, right? Yes, it&#8217;s *that* Ann Brashares of Traveling Pants fame, but this is no summer friendship tale &#8211; the entire future of mankind is at stake! This April 2014 release should be easily found at your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,62],"tags":[90,7,202,75,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,44,43,39,27,49,15,9,21,35,33,3,119,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-science-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-beliefs","tag-blogathon2014","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-time-travel","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}