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Future Perfect

The Most Exciting High-Concept Novel of the Year

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Future Perfect

By: Felicia Yap
Narrated by: John Sackville, Marie Lawrence
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Summary

 What if the last day you will always remember is today?

Emma and Jonathan meet for the first time today, the morning of their twenty-third birthdays. She's gawky and wears hideous orange-and-green socks. He's cute, whimsical and recites obscure poetry.

They fall in love.

There's a small problem.

What happens today, both good and bad, will stay with them for the rest of their lives. From tomorrow onwards, all new memories will be regularly erased by sleep.

Today's the last day they will always remember.

It gets worse.

Emma's housemate Liz has gone missing and her boyfriend, aspiring detective Hans Richardson, has just one day to solve her case... but he doesn't know it.

TODAY is a story of seized - and missed - opportunities. It's a tale of love, hope and regret. Can Hans find Liz? Can Emma and Jonathan seize the day, make the right memories to last them a lifetime? Can they work out what love is all about... before it's too late?

Felicia Yap brings you the hotly anticipated prequel to YESTERDAY, the high-concept thriller sensation of 2017.

'Yap is a phenomenon' - Guardian

'A thrilling new voice' - Red

'The one that everyone is talking about... Enthralling' - Woman & Home

'A blockbuster-worthy twist... YESTERDAY stands out from the crowd' - Stylist

'The intrigue of GONE GIRL and the drama of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP - iNews

(P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd©2018 Felicia Yap Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Thriller Detective Murder Exciting
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Critic reviews

A clever and multifaceted high-concept story with an engaging murder mystery at its core. Expect this to be one of 2021's biggest thrillers.
A tense and suspenseful race against time...this deftly plotted thriller will make you ruminate about the digital footprints we all leave behind and how they could ultimately define us in a world of ever-advancing technology.
An inventive and ingenious vision of things to come. From the explosive opening chapter to the surprise ending, Felicia Yap creates a troubling, all too plausible world. A thought-provoking, immersive novel packed with engaging characters.
[Future Perfect] is a high concept crime novel that speaks directly to the world unfolding around us . . . With a knowing nod to Minority Report, Yap delivers a twisty techno-thriller with a human heart.
A thought-provoking, twisty and emotional thriller that had me gripped from the first page.
Such a wonderful novel - beautifully written, incredibly tense, twists that I didn't see coming (and I pride myself on twist-spotting!) and frighteningly believable.
A touching, mesmerizing read ... really well plotted to derive the maximum tension and keeps you hooked right to the unexpected ending.
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Multi-narrator, tech-heavy plot. Surprises and a slightly scary future world.

A bomb on a catwalk, a murder enquiry. Multiple narrators each with a story heading towards the main plot... if we can work out how they thread together.

This ended up being much smarter than I gave it credit for at the start. And also featured a fantastically realistic futuristic (and yet so close to today's) society that felt a little creepy and yet so easy to envisage: phones that predict how likely you are to eat chocolate today, where you want to go and to plan your route, even how likely you are to die today...

A police commissioner, his fiance (software expert) tasked with finding likely suspects to the murder, models and designers... the story takes its time with backstories and histories, building up a world of characters within this society and what it's made of people... before satisfying quite nicely with threads drawn together.

Yap gives clues but also dead ends, draws you in various ways and gives plenty of things to think about. It's smart, it's a society as it may be, and it was certainly very entertaining and dark.

I might have occasionally got lost with narrators on the Audible version, it isn't always clear who is carrying the story or who they are until ends of chapters. I might have found this easier to manage with a paper copy, but I did keep up I think. It's less straightforward than some are to manage as a 'listen', though most of the time that was fine. The voices themselves are clear and convey a picture of who you are listening to, though I might recommend a paper/e-copy more highly for those who find multiple narrators a little harder to follow.

With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy.

Multi-narrator, tech-heavy plot

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This book was both an enjoyable and a frustrating listen. I kept wanting to flip back to check who had said or done what at some critical juncture. Being an audiobook it was pretty difficult to do that. That though simply made me listen rather more attentively than I do most audiobooks. It’s difficult to say more about the story without spoiling it, but I liked the way the future was credibly introduced. It is often difficult when writing about the near future, where the story is set, whilst credibly describing what happened between 2021 and 2030. This book handled that tricky task credibly and effortlessly.

I wish I’d read this rather than listened

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