Author: Cristin Terrill
Series: All Our Yesterdays #1
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication Date: September 3, 2013
Genre: Science Fiction; Mystery; Young Adult
Pages: 360
What would you change?
Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain.
Only Em can complete the final instruction. She’s tried everything to prevent the creation of a time machine that will tear the world apart. She holds the proof: a list she has never seen before, written in her own hand. Each failed attempt in the past has led her to the same terrible present—imprisoned and tortured by a sadistic man called the doctor while war rages outside.
Marina has loved her best friend, James, since they were children. A gorgeous, introverted science prodigy from one of America’s most famous families, James finally seems to be seeing Marina in a new way, too. But on one disastrous night, James’s life crumbles, and with it, Marina’s hopes for their future. Marina will protect James, no matter what. Even if it means opening her eyes to a truth so terrible that she may not survive it... at least, not as the girl she once was. Em and Marina are in a race against time that only one of them can win.
All Our Yesterdays is a wrenching, brilliantly plotted story of fierce love, unthinkable sacrifice, and the infinite implications of our every choice.
Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain.
Only Em can complete the final instruction. She’s tried everything to prevent the creation of a time machine that will tear the world apart. She holds the proof: a list she has never seen before, written in her own hand. Each failed attempt in the past has led her to the same terrible present—imprisoned and tortured by a sadistic man called the doctor while war rages outside.
Marina has loved her best friend, James, since they were children. A gorgeous, introverted science prodigy from one of America’s most famous families, James finally seems to be seeing Marina in a new way, too. But on one disastrous night, James’s life crumbles, and with it, Marina’s hopes for their future. Marina will protect James, no matter what. Even if it means opening her eyes to a truth so terrible that she may not survive it... at least, not as the girl she once was. Em and Marina are in a race against time that only one of them can win.
All Our Yesterdays is a wrenching, brilliantly plotted story of fierce love, unthinkable sacrifice, and the infinite implications of our every choice.
“Time travel isn’t a wonder; it’s an abomination.”
What if you suddenly found that you were in possession of a DeLorean time machine? Or a Time Turner? Or even a Time Sled, right out of H.G. Well’s imagination? Some would say that time travel was a gift. Others a curse. All Our Yesterdays shows the brutally horrific side of time traveling along with some of the advantages of being able to change the past and all the future that goes along with it.
The book opens to Em, a girl incarcerated in a cell neighboring a boy named Finn. Together they try to persevere the torturous activities of “the doctor”. When Em discovers a slip of paper with scratched out phrases written in her handwriting, she can’t seem to forget the final perfectly readable phrase right at the bottom of the list. Just five words holds the future in its hands, but will Em have the courage to do something that could possibly destroy her?
All Our Yesterdays took me on a roller coaster ride that was not limited to turning my mind upside down and backwards. The incomparable complexity of time travel was made surprising simple, even with all its paradoxes and loops. Terrill spun magic into her words, making it impossible for me to put it down for anything other than bathroom breaks and food. The plot twists made my mind implode. The romance made my heart try to break out of my ribcage. Honestly, I’ve only read average books before this one, and I was just so happy to finally have a book to obsess over.
“Basically, space and time are really one thing, a kind of giant film stretched across the universe called space-time.”
Terrill knows how to do time travel right. Incorporating just a dash of science, a pinch of mystery, and somehow concocting the perfect recipe for science fiction at its best. The ending made me slam the metaphorical brake. Should I cry or should I jump with joy? I was so conflicted I didn’t know what to do myself! Let’s just say, that night, I did not sleep very soundly. I want the sequel. Now. Right Now. At this moment. Literally, cannot wait another moment. *slams head on keyboard*
Read this book. Just do it. Please. You won’t be disappointed.
“People weren’t mean to travel in time.”
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