No, this isn't the superhero story. Where Futures End, by Parker Peevyhouse, is a novel full of five stories from five people from different times. It shows the full story of two worlds, one falling further into destruction and its possible savior fantasy land, with one destined ending.
My reading theme for this summer seems to be multi-POV books because this story is yet another one. However, it is different from One of Us Is Lying and its sequel; this book tells five different stories, all from different times and people, with one thing that connects them all. Tommy Wallach calls this book, "One of the most ambitious YA novels I've ever read," and I think that's because of the different points of view. It is extremely ambitious, but Peevyhouse pulls it off.
Honestly, I'm not sure how I felt about this book. On one hand, I loved most of the perspectives because of how well-written they were. The book was very interesting in the way that it was mostly a comment on climate change and society's obsession with social media. I think that is what helped make the book so unique because I've never read a book that mixed and intertwined those two concepts. Then I got to the second to last story, and I don't know if it was because I was burnt out from reading for four hours, but I just did not enjoy that story as much. The book was very suspenseful and I thought the story concepts were unique, but one con of the multiple stories is the very limited character development each character got. Though, one could argue that adds to the charm of the book. Overall, the book was well-written, but the writing wasn't consistent till the end.
One qualm I had with the book was how the character in the fourth story seemed to blame everything that went wrong on China. I understand it makes sense in the context of that story, but it felt disingenuine to me. It was full of stereotypical dystopian things that I don't think were extremely necessary. I think Peevyhouse tried too hard to make a grungy, edgy story but it just didn't feel genuine. The fourth story was a little off-putting, and I know the book as a whole would've been much more likable if the fourth story didn't feel so forced.
Don't let this discourage you from reading the book, however. Peevyhouse made a very ambitious novel full of very different stories that ranged from fantasy to techno-dystopian to a climate-changed wasteland. The novel as a whole was very suspenseful full of (mostly) likable characters, and I would encourage any fan of YA novels to read this unique book.
