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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I would have enjoyed this more if it weren’t for the main character’s intimate relationship with her former school counselor. It just gave me the ick, mostly because it’s not at all ok.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
4.5 stars actually 'cause I wanted a tiny bit more ending, but I loved it! A gripping story with well developed characters. I love the idea of there being a special place where all the missing things go....I hope my eternity ring is there! Things I've learned from this book is that usually things happen for a reason, your "faults" can be someone else's salvation, and that I really should try and be a bit more tidy.
Looking forward to reading more books by Cecilia Ahern as this is the first one I've read and I really like the way she writes!
Looking forward to reading more books by Cecilia Ahern as this is the first one I've read and I really like the way she writes!
This was a fascinating and strange book - I do want to read some more by this author.
I picked this up randomly from a molding pile of books and magazines next to a fireplace in a dilapidated Irish bed and breakfast. I had no idea what to expect from it. From the cover, it looked like a schmaltzy rom-com. It ended up being a magical surprise.
Sandy Shortt has a neurotic compulsion to find missing things: from the elusive left sock to potential abductees. Just as she's about to start her next case involving a one-year-missing Limerick man, she goes missing as well, leaving her client alone with the only clues that something's wrong. While he toils away convincing her associates that she might have disappeared, she finds herself in a much more unbelievable predicament: she has found where all the lost things go.
It ended up being partial mystery, partial self help, and partial fairytale in an interesting way.
SPOILERS
Although... I got grossed out by the grooming aspect of the book. Not sure how a relationship between a girl of 14 and her therapist of 28 is supposed to evolve into a healthy adult romance instead of a healthy adult imprisonment.
Sandy Shortt has a neurotic compulsion to find missing things: from the elusive left sock to potential abductees. Just as she's about to start her next case involving a one-year-missing Limerick man, she goes missing as well, leaving her client alone with the only clues that something's wrong. While he toils away convincing her associates that she might have disappeared, she finds herself in a much more unbelievable predicament: she has found where all the lost things go.
It ended up being partial mystery, partial self help, and partial fairytale in an interesting way.
SPOILERS
Although... I got grossed out by the grooming aspect of the book. Not sure how a relationship between a girl of 14 and her therapist of 28 is supposed to evolve into a healthy adult romance instead of a healthy adult imprisonment.
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Cecelia Ahern can take the mundane,seemingly boring object and turn into a thing of beauty! She is a wonderful writer! Her style of writing is very appealing to me and the way she tells her stories even more!
This books is really good and if you're finding yourself impossible to finish it just cause of the number of pages and how slow and repetitive it gets over chapters, trust me I was there too.
This book is certainly about things and people that go lost and be never found.
The best part of this story is how it is divided into 2 major narrations and how those 2 got scattered all over the pages and chapters talking almost similar things all over. At one point I decided to chuck the book in and live my life happily cause it just became so so boring. But as I am someone who finishes even the things she doesn't like I sad one day to read the last/remaining 13 chapters and finish it off for good. It was in those last chapters the story got speed and better twists. Reading no longer became and felt hectic, rather I enjoyed all those chapters and the ending really had me. It was so relieving to read those last lines and feel like being stepped into home.
I would read those last chapters just to feel home in times I am away from home and hope. I suggest you read this too. Trust me, it gets better.
This book is certainly about things and people that go lost and be never found.
The best part of this story is how it is divided into 2 major narrations and how those 2 got scattered all over the pages and chapters talking almost similar things all over. At one point I decided to chuck the book in and live my life happily cause it just became so so boring. But as I am someone who finishes even the things she doesn't like I sad one day to read the last/remaining 13 chapters and finish it off for good. It was in those last chapters the story got speed and better twists. Reading no longer became and felt hectic, rather I enjoyed all those chapters and the ending really had me. It was so relieving to read those last lines and feel like being stepped into home.
I would read those last chapters just to feel home in times I am away from home and hope. I suggest you read this too. Trust me, it gets better.
It's about 4 or 5 years since I read this but I do remember thinking ,while I was reading it, that it was a long slog of weirdness. The idea of a place where all missing things and places go was a really original idea but I just couldn't get in to this story. It didn't come across well.
Also I couldn't connect with many of the characters excluding Bobby.
Also I couldn't connect with many of the characters excluding Bobby.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced