Review: Plot May Have Been Done A Fair Few Times Already, But A Fun Read None the Less
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
Although the basic plot of Fast Forward where a young person wakes up in the future (in this case 25 years later) inside an old body and starts freaking out and determined to find a way back, this one had the didn't want to stop turning the pages until the end factor.  For me that's what makes a good story, not necessarily an original idea, but telling that idea in an engrossing way you just don't want to part from. If done properly this would make a good contribution that granted already getting a bit saturated genre.I liked how the future was more realistic with some new stuff but the limitations weren't smashed like some future based fiction.  Back to the Future went 25 years into the future as well and as we know the hover boards, flying cars, shoes that lace themselves and even more Jaws sequels (thankfully), don't look like they'll be part of mainstream life by next year. This one has some improvements to driving, person communication devices, vacuuming, boiling an egg and a few other things that seem plausible.  But the futuristic world isn't what drives Fast Forward.It's the main character Kellie, and her immediate revulsion to going to sleep a 24 year old model, and waking up an overweight 50 year old woman, in through a 25 year old's eyes, a disgusting body.  Then finding out she married the biggest loser in her school and wondering what happened to her gorgeous boyfriend who was set to propose, and that she has a weird son and heavily pregnant daughter.  It's Kellie's coming of age experience so to speak that drives this novel forward as she begins to not only care for the needs of those around her but to appreciate those people too as she tries to find a way to get back to her life in the present.