your life has been delayed by michelle i mason

Jenny is shallow AF, and we quickly discover that she develops prejudices against people based on what they look like. Sounds amazing, right? But unfortunately, we get treated to a slew of issues, including: Oh, and her best friend has married her boyfriend and birthed the worryingly attractive Dylan. Her parents are old, her 12-year-old brother Bradley is now in his 30s, and half her grandparents dead. When she touches down, she discovers that her three-hour flight been 25 years, and it's now 2020. The fact that the author gives zero place description doesn't help). (Apparently that's in Missouri, which is one of those states that feels like it's been made up. So, the heroine - 17-year-old Jenny Waters - goes missing in 1995, while flying on a plane between New York and St Louis. ⤅ The way this fascinating premise has been DESTROYED and turned into an angsty, plot-less romantic soap opera is practically criminal. Like the show Manifest, this is about a flight that goes missing in the air, with minutes passing for the passengers and years passing for everyone else.Īlso like the show Manifest, it was not my cup of tea.īottom line: Too much pseudo science in my YA contemporary!Ĭhallenging myself to read as many review copies as possible this month because i'm addicted to projects! I've only seen fifteen-second clips of the show Manifest, but here's what I got: The characters were in a firm second place to the plotline.

The romance icked me out so bad my shoulders were around my ears in a defensive cringe positioning for at least half of the aforementioned too-many pages. It felt about one to two hundred pages too long. So maybe I've never gotten on a flight and landed thirty years later, like this girl, but I have lost a year of my early twenties to a pandemic-related lockdown so it feels about the same.

Your life has been delayed by michelle i mason