I started this book with high expectation from the previous reviews, but I found the plot to weak and the characters to be very, very...thin...underdeveloped...two dimensional. The two parts of the book are disjointed and painfully parallel at the same time. The section that happens in the past is far more interesting than the part that occurs in the future. Reading the chapters that happen in 2018, I found myself all too ready to rid myself of the whiney characters and get back to the past.