Thank you for the e-arc!
*DNF at 13%*
Very part I read I hated if I am going, to be honest, because of the main character and time travel.
I have never read time travel so I tried it but I hated it so I chose not to continue this book.
The e-arc on kindle had a very odd format.

First of all thanks to the publisher and netgalley for sending me an ARC of the book.

I wanted to love this book so much. It did not work.
The story follows Jenny a teenager from the 90s that takes a plane to go home and when the plane arrives it turns out that 25 years have passed.
This would be a great plot for a book, to try to see if there is a way to solve all of this stuff and investigate how they can go home or at least understand how they show up there 25 years later.
Instead we just got the story of Jenny crying ALL FREAKING DAY! Like, Girl just pull yourself together.
Also all of the characters in this book are horrible, Jenny besides crying all day is being left alone of the thruth about what happened all those years ago.
Angie was absolutley horrible, and Jenny forgave her. WFT???
The 'good' part of the book is that it was very adicting, yet very bad. I would deffinetly not recomend this book to anyone, unless you want to hate all of your friends.

4/5
This story reminded me of the TV show Manifest which is one of my favorite series! 17-year-old Jenny gets on a flight from St. Louis to New York in the late 1990s, and she lands 25 years in the future. She finds her parents aged, her little brother now a grown man, and her boyfriend and best friend married with 18-year old twins. Jenny along with her fellow passengers is faced with a media hurricane she also has to balance her senior year amidst everything going on in her life. And then she has to deal with the feeling of attraction that she's having towards the son of her former boyfriend and best friend. Overall I really enjoyed this and it was such a fun read! Definitely recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for providing me with this arc in exchange for an honest review.

* I received a copy of Your Life Has Been Delayed from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. *

This was such an interesting read! The premise caught my attention first due to its similarity to the TV show Manifest! It's about a seventeen year old girl named Jenny who gets on a flight from St. Louis to New York in the late 1990s, and lands 25 years into the future. I really enjoyed the character development of Jenny, because she is a very relatable teenager who understandably is confused about the situation and all of the new developments that have happened in the years she has been "dead". She has to deal with conspiracy theorists, overwhelming impact of social media, the incessant presence of technology, and the over-protectiveness and changes of her loved ones all while trying to fight her growing feelings for Dylan. It was intriguing to see her try to adapt to the changes of the 21st century. There were many shocking moments that involved her best friend, Angie, and others pertaining to social media that were hidden from her. I really enjoyed this novel due to the awesome homages to the 90s and the concept of "what would you do?".


This was such a great fast read full of time-travel and family! Anyone that enjoys sci-fi and coming of age stories would enjoy this book.

This is a clever and engaging story. Jenny, about to enter her senior year of high school in 1995, is returning from New York, where she was visiting Columbia, to her home in St. Louis. Her flight seems uneventful. But when she and her fellow passengers of Flight 237 land, they learn that, as far as everyone else knows, their flight disappeared 25 years ago. Although the flight felt like three hours to the passengers, they disembark into 2020. No one understands what happens. All Jenny knows is her once little brother is now a full grown adult, her parents now resemble her grandparents, phones are now in your pockets and are basically supercomputers, and she has no idea what is next when the world seems to have passed her by.

The story follows Jenny as she seeks to navigate her new world -- a whole new set of classmates, complications of fitting in with family and friends and the choices they made when they assumed Jenny was dead, and a set of conspiracy theorists who believe the government and passengers are hiding something about Flight 237.

I really enjoyed this story. Jenny is a terrific character and it was fun (and educational) to see how 2020 appeared to someone who thoughts CDs were the height of technology. The premise was also really interesting, and the author did a great job of taking something unbelievable and using it to explore, in a very believable way, the choices, emotions, and reactions people in this situation would have.

Highly recommended!

Even though this story has a time travel element, it is not a sci-fi focused story. Your Life Has Been Delayed is a story that revolves around relationships. Through the character Jenny, the reader is presented with the question, what would happen to your family and friends if you were not around?
Your Life Has Been Delayed, is a quick and enjoyable read if you take it at face value. The story explores the question, how would life turn out without you in it. It also explores how much society and technology has changed in the last twenty five years. The mystery of how Flight 237 time traveled not being resolved leaves the reader wondering how could something like that happen. However, as in life not all of our questions are answered. There is a sweet but weird romance between Jenny and Dylan, her best friend and former boyfriend’s son. Even though it feels like a weird romance, it still is sweet on it’s own if you forget the fact that it is between Jenny and her best friend’s son. Even Jenny wrestles with this question and comes to the conclusion that it is the person as themselves not where they come from which is important. The author note at the end of the book does explain that she wrote this pre-pandemic and felt that the storyline itself would have changed the essence of the story if she had rewrote the setting to include Covid 19 so she decided to publish it as is. Teens will enjoy this quick and thought provoking book.
I received an ARC ebook from NetGalley and the publisher, Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books , in exchange for an honest review.

This story has a fascinating premise reminiscent of the TV show Manifest: 17-year old Jenny gets on a flight from St. Louis to New York in the late 1990s, and lands 25 years into the future. She finds her parents aged, her little brother a grown man, and her boyfriend and best friend married with 18-year old twins. Jenny and her fellow passengers are faced with a media storm of interest as well as a barrage of skeptics who call their existence a hoax. She also has to navigate starting her senior year amidst the scrutiny and complications from a new world of social media, while also falling for the distressingly attractive son of her former flame and best friend. A very fun read!

Jenny Waters boards a flight in 1995 and when the plane lands, the passengers and crew discover that their plane has been missing and presumed downed for 25 years. Jenny had planned on landing to convince her parents that New York was the place, Columbia was the school, and hopeful about finally receiving her first kiss from her boyfriend. Instead upon landing the slow reveal is that everyone she loved has thought she was dead for 25 years, and they moved, painfully, on. Her best friend is in her 40s and her little brother is a grown man. Loved ones have died of old age. A full plane of strangers become oddly bonded by the shared experience of having become living anachronisms. I think Mason has done a really good job with this novel. Jenny's naivete for a modern day teen rings true for the teens of 25 years ago, prior to instant fame and the internet. Jenny is a smart teen, and adapts fairly quickly, but is stumbling constantly not just due to the time gaps, but to the protectiveness of her family. It all feels very real. She's smart enough to understand how devastating her disappearance would have been, but still young enough to occasionally sulk and chafe under some of the restrictions her family and friends impose upon her. The concept as a teen novel is lighter - at 17 the reader feels she will be fine and will adapt to the losses she's faced. After all, this is their world too. A fun time travel novel, with a reluctant time traveler.

I wanted to love this book. I really did like it and would recommend it for certain readers. The concept and writing are good but I just did not love it. It was for sure YA. I liked the mystery behind all of it. Great character development.

I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it.

This book is about a girl who took a simple plane ride home from her grandparents, but ended up time traveling 25 years. The concept is really cool and I loved the set up. The actual book was just okay. I wish it focused more on the mystery of what happened and less on little high school drama.

I honestly just didn't like the main character. I can understand where she was coming from at first, but as the book went on she just annoyed me. The other characters were mediocre, too.

Overall, I think the idea of this book is very interesting, but it fell short.

Thank you for this ARC in exchange for a honest review.

This book has such a fascinating premise—I found it really hard to put down. I liked how Mason balanced Jenny being a teen hurt by losing life as she knew it with Jenny considering the feelings of how her disappearance impacted other people. Even more impressive was the thoughtful handling of the overwhelming impact of social media and changes in journalism, and especially how conspiracy theories can explode in that milieu. In the end, the focus was not on the sci-fi of time travel, but on the heart of Jenny’s changing relationships, so I'd recommend it for anyone except those who only enjoy hard sci-fi.

3.5/3.75 🌟

Many thanks to Bloomsbury YA for my review copy of this book via Netgalley! This was such a compulsive read, I couldn't put it down and I just had to keep reading for most of the book.

I was scoping netgalley for books and came across the blurb and oh my! I knew I had to read it and gratefully, I don't regret my decision.

I am a conspiracy theorist at heart, so a book about a plane that disappears only to land 25 years in the future is right up my alley. This started out so well and on such a high. The premise was so intriguing too.

Jenny Waters is the MC, a 17 year old girl who went to visit her grandparents in New York in the summer of 95. She gets on a plane back and when they land, she along with the rest of the plane discovers that they're in 2020.

This is a YA book that's heavy on the YA. Against the backdrop of everything that's going on with the plane we still get to see Jenny be a teen, go to school, be petty and childish, and fall in love. There are so many culture shocks with Jenny experiences when she sees/discovers things like iPhones, flat screen TVs, social media, and the internet for the first time.

This book was so so funny. I couldn't stop laughing at some parts. The writing was so witty especially at the beginning when Jenny was learning about new things in 2020.

On the other hand as well, there's the serious aspect to the plane appearing 25 years later. The FBI is involved, the life everyone left isn't what they met, lots of their family and friends are dead, there are politicians and conspiracy theorists trying to find out what exactly happened. How is this possible? I, too, was invested in the science of it all - how did it happen? What's the explanation?

I wish we had gotten more science during the course of the book. At a certain mark the book just delved into YA contemporary, with the high school, teen rivalry, and the romance. Jenny was very childish if I'm being honest. She kept getting mad and acting out over the tiniest things and things that aren't even justifiable to be mad at.

I had a lot of questions at the end of this book. The main goal for picking up this book - the airplane disappearance -i wasn't satisfied by how the author closed that out. Lots of things were left in the air but we also got closure to a lot of the plot points so I'm thankful for that.

This was such a fun read and I would definitely recommend it!

The premise of this book was great and could be a hit with my Manifest fans. However, while I liked the overall story, it didn't pack much of a punch for me. I didn't feel like there were any major stakes for the characters and the resolution happened much too quickly. Ultimately, I didn't dislike this book, but I didn't love this book either. If someone asked for it, I'd buy it, but I don't think this is going to be particularly memorable book in my reading life.

Jenny boarded a plane in New York after a visit with her grandparents only to land in Chicago 25 years later and she's only been gone for three hours in the air. Her little brother is now her parents age and he has kids of his own. Her grandparents she just left have all died. Her best friend has written a book revealing Jenny's secrets and she went and married Jenny's boyfriend and had twins. Jenny has landed in a world where technology has boomed into how people communicate. Its 2020 and people cant live without their cell phones and social media.

Though the truth of how and why they were transported 25 years into the future is never really explained, I have my doubts as to the authenticity of how people would react to this situation. In light of the TV series "Manifest" just coming out on Netflix, I was waiting for the passengers to all develop superpowers or something, but this is really just about the human reaction to a group of people being misplaced in time only to reemerge 25years later and deal with the aftermath of the world going on without them. I did love Dylan and all the 90's references so I think this will be more of a nostalgic read for all of us adults who grew up in the days without cell phones running our lives.

A thank you to netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for the honest review.

I was interested in the premise of this book and it lived up to my hopes. It's a great purchase for YA public library collections. I will be looking forward to Mason's next book.

This book has a super intriguing premise, and one that I suspect will open up interesting post-read dialogues about "what would you do if"? Our heroine accidentally travels 25 years into the future, where she encounters aging family members, new technology, the perils of social media, some questionable press interest, and the need to reestablish a reliable friend circle. While time travel stories often serve as journeys that allow the heroes to take lessons back to their own time, Mason keeps Jenny's focus on the adjustment to her new life, using the set up to explore themes about aging, loss, communication, and assimilation. Though there's some quirky conflict regarding the lives her 1995 friends and family are living in 2020--the tone never veers into the comedic sensibility we might expect from similar set ups in films like Back to the Future and 13 Going on 30. This isn't an antic or action story. Written with an emphasis on internal monologue, it's more of thoughtful allegory about the passage of time and the ways lifestyles change while people age and leave us, forcing us to build new connections. All that said, YLHBD isn't a sad book. It's simply grounded in the questions we all ask as lives change around us and force us to adjust. Why did this happen? How did this happen? How do I rebuild my most essential relationships? How do I re-frame my future? What do I do now? Those who enjoy the speculative end of sci fi genre fiction with a smattering of teen drama, political intrigue, and romance will "fly" through this one.

LOVED IT! Great premise! Great plot! This book did not disappoint. I could feel the stress and confusion of Jenny and the other passengers in her support group.