Shannon Bruess
Indie Author
Shannon Bruess is the debut author of the young adult novel The Generation gApp. She lives in Illinois with her husband and their two daughters. When Shannon is not writing, she's running a gym, teaching college courses, and reading young adult fiction like its going out of style.
The Generation gApp
If you die here, your brain dies back home.
And with her best friend’s lifeless body in her arms, Vada Cummings must decide if saving his life is worth sacrificing her own.
A week ago, choosing between a flea market or the most gag-inspiring event of the year was considered a life-altering decision for Vada. Her life is comfortably—fine. Anti-climatic. Suburbanly-monotonous. That is until her best friend, Noah, discovers The Generation gApp—a virtual “time machine” app that filters your phone to depict life in any year of the past. Autocorrected language, adjusted photos, customized music libraries—the app basically catapults you back in time.
Except it actually does. It catapults Vada, Noah, and apparently everyone they know back to 1995.
But since when does time travel cause the wrong words to fall out of your mouth? Why does everything suddenly resemble every 90s sitcom in existence? And why the actual hell is everyone so—empty?
Countless oddities, with harrowing consequences, continue to surface until Vada finally discovers the truth about their situation. Nothing is what it seems and she has fallen target of a disturbing ploy fueled by a delusional obsession.
CONTENT WARNING: this novel contains mild sexual content, some adult language, and a sexual assault scenario that may be triggering for some.