Review: Your Life Has Been Delayed - Michelle I. Mason

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Your Life Has Been Delayed

Review: Your Life Has Been Delayed - Michelle I. Mason - September 2021

This YA read's story had me intrigued as I love time travel novels.  For those who have watched the TV show Manifest, then you will get the gist of this book as it was very similar in storylines without the characters getting weird powers like in the TV show and unlike the TV show which is 5 years gap - this book is 25 years. The book started with 17-year-old Jenny heading to New York to check out Columbia and then the next thing she knows, her plane is landing but it is now 2020 and when she left for her three hours ago it was the year 1995. Realistically she should be in her late 40's but of course, she is still her 17-year-old self, and she and the rest of the flight who haven't aged now have to find themselves and reintegrate into the present. Jenny's life has changed drastically as she has had her family die, her younger brother is now in his late 30's and married with two children and to make matters worse her best friend and her boyfriend at the time have both moved on with their lives and created new ones. Can Jenny find her way back into this world, especially when even technology has changed drastically and her whole career choice in newspapers is seen as dead since the world is all about online journalism?  This book did make me think about what it would be like if we were suddenly catapulted into the future? Would we be able to pick it up? The only thing I wasn't keen on in this story was that the character of Jenny seemed younger than her 17-year-old self and her parents babied her quite a bit which made her a naive character. In parts, when we saw glimpses of her old self and present, it did make me wonder if Jenny had or was on the Autism/Aspergers spectrum. If she did, then the protectiveness and naivety would make sense for the story. If not, then JFC gives Jenny some space and let her grow up and make her own decisions people.  Your Life has been delayed by Michelle I Mason is the perfect read for those who enjoyed Manifest and Jay Asher's The Future of Us.

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