Yesterday is a fantastic young adult novel combining dystopian, time travel, and 1980?s cultural elements. This is one of the most entertaining young adult novels that I?ve read all year!
Freya has just moved with her family from Australia after her father?s death in a gas explosion ? or at least that?s what everyone else believes has happened. But Freya has started having dreams of living with a different family, and of events that don?t match up at all with her current life. In her waking hours she is trying to adjust to the new school and friends, yet in some ways she feels detached from her life; her memories of friends and experiences in Australia being devoid of feeling and emotion, as if they happened to someone else.
Then one day on a school field trip to the city she sees a boy who seems eerily familiar, so she follows him just to see where he goes. Soon after that he starts showing up vividly in her dreams along with all of the other people who don?t play any role in Freya?s memories of Australia. Soon these other memories start making appearances in the daytime, and she thinks that the boy from the city, Garren, might be the key to recovering her true memories and finding out what is happening to her.
This story is one where it gives you a glimpse of the dystopian society in the beginning, and then suddenly shifts to Freya in 1985. And the mystery of the story is how she came to be a part of this new family, and why.
The pace ramps up when she meets Garren and then barrels through to the end, with the exception of one chapter in the middle in which we get a lot of background information. These facts are essential to the plot, and even though the method of accessing the information seems a little convenient for the plot, it doesn?t detract from the story.
Yesterday is a wonderfully exciting tale to read and I highly recommend it to fans of young adult dystopian fiction! In what has become a rarity for YA dystopian, Yesterday has a distinct ending (not a frustrating cliff-hanger), though I think it is clearly begging for a sequel (or two), because I would dearly love to find out more about Freya?s life and the future of her world.
Rating: 5/5
I received a free electronic copy of this book for review.
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Source: http://athomewithbooks.net/2012/09/yesterday-by-c-k-kelly-martin/
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