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The Book of Tomorrow
by Cecelia Ahern
Tamara's a rich and popular girl, living in a nice house with parents that buy her anything she wants. Then her Dad dies and they lose the house and Tamara and her mum have to go live with relatives Tamara barely knows out in the countryside. So far, so normal for a coming of age story - a privileged girl learns to be more accepting and thoughtful of others around her. But this story takes a turn for the weird when Tamara finds a diary from a travelling library, a diary that when she opens it each morning already has her own thoughts from the day written in as though it had already happened.
I picked this up at a car boot sale because it looked like a nice, easy read with a good bit of fantasy mixed in. And that's exactly what it is; finding the diary changes the way Tamara lives out her day, sometimes helping her and sometimes just confusing her but the story still moves along predictable lines.
There was tons of mystery around too: the mysterious person living in the house across the road, Tamara's parents and her own history; Tamara finds out secrets and lies shroud the truth of her family history. It added to the story but when the truth came out I didn't find it entirely convincing: why people did certain things wasn't as believable as it could have been.
Tamara is a fun character to read, she's arrogant but not too mean and the mysteries and the strange diary make the story a lot more interesting than it otherwise would have been. It still doesn't stray too far from the standard formula for this type of book though. It's a nice easy read but nothing really stands out about it.
A nice mix of mystery and oddness, I enjoyed it and it would make a nice, light holiday read, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.
I picked this up at a car boot sale because it looked like a nice, easy read with a good bit of fantasy mixed in. And that's exactly what it is; finding the diary changes the way Tamara lives out her day, sometimes helping her and sometimes just confusing her but the story still moves along predictable lines.
There was tons of mystery around too: the mysterious person living in the house across the road, Tamara's parents and her own history; Tamara finds out secrets and lies shroud the truth of her family history. It added to the story but when the truth came out I didn't find it entirely convincing: why people did certain things wasn't as believable as it could have been.
Tamara is a fun character to read, she's arrogant but not too mean and the mysteries and the strange diary make the story a lot more interesting than it otherwise would have been. It still doesn't stray too far from the standard formula for this type of book though. It's a nice easy read but nothing really stands out about it.
A nice mix of mystery and oddness, I enjoyed it and it would make a nice, light holiday read, but I wouldn't go out of my way for it.