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A review by drey72
The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern
4.0
Oh, Lucy. Life has a way of taking notice when you’re just sleep-walking through it, shutting yourself off from your family and friends. And life doesn’t take too kindly to your ignoring its prompts to sit back and take stock…
Cecelia Ahern’s latest offering is a poignant tale of a girl who gives up – barely going through the motions with her family and friends, coasting at her job, TV-stalking her ex-boyfriend – because she told one lie almost three years ago. One lie that snowballed into life-altering events and spawned countless half-truths. One lie that she cannot bring herself to un-tell, or to clear the air about. One lie that brought her to this here and now: turning thirty, hiding behind sarcasm, living like a hermit in a hovel…
I thoroughly enjoyed The Time of My Life. Lucy Silchester is a nice, normal girl who’s made a few bad decisions for the wrong reasons. And even the “bad” isn’t truly bad at all. But she’s caught up in a web of her own weaving, and try as she might (which isn’t very hard at all) she can’t untangle herself. And instead of packing it all up and moving to a new town so she doesn’t have to live with the consequences of that one lie, she puts it all inside and walks out whenever the conversation’s getting too difficult to sit through. Not a way to live, at all.
When life calls, Lucy ignores it. But eventually she caves in and meets him – yes, her life’s a him – and life tells Lucy she has to start telling the truth. Or he will. He makes Lucy confront her fears, reclaim her voice, and in doing so, take charge of her life.
I love how Ahern’s books always have a point. The Time of My Life tells us to not take everything for granted, that friends can – and do – stand by us when we need them to, that family is never perfect but they’re usually the ones who love us first, that a broken heart can mend, that life is meant to be lived, not lived through. It also tells us never to be afraid to be ourselves, because we can only live our best lives when we’re true to our own self. This one won’t use up the box of tissues like P.S. I Love You did, but tugs at the heartstrings nonetheless. Pick it up and get started on your summer reading early!
drey’s rating: Excellent!
Cecelia Ahern’s latest offering is a poignant tale of a girl who gives up – barely going through the motions with her family and friends, coasting at her job, TV-stalking her ex-boyfriend – because she told one lie almost three years ago. One lie that snowballed into life-altering events and spawned countless half-truths. One lie that she cannot bring herself to un-tell, or to clear the air about. One lie that brought her to this here and now: turning thirty, hiding behind sarcasm, living like a hermit in a hovel…
I thoroughly enjoyed The Time of My Life. Lucy Silchester is a nice, normal girl who’s made a few bad decisions for the wrong reasons. And even the “bad” isn’t truly bad at all. But she’s caught up in a web of her own weaving, and try as she might (which isn’t very hard at all) she can’t untangle herself. And instead of packing it all up and moving to a new town so she doesn’t have to live with the consequences of that one lie, she puts it all inside and walks out whenever the conversation’s getting too difficult to sit through. Not a way to live, at all.
When life calls, Lucy ignores it. But eventually she caves in and meets him – yes, her life’s a him – and life tells Lucy she has to start telling the truth. Or he will. He makes Lucy confront her fears, reclaim her voice, and in doing so, take charge of her life.
I love how Ahern’s books always have a point. The Time of My Life tells us to not take everything for granted, that friends can – and do – stand by us when we need them to, that family is never perfect but they’re usually the ones who love us first, that a broken heart can mend, that life is meant to be lived, not lived through. It also tells us never to be afraid to be ourselves, because we can only live our best lives when we’re true to our own self. This one won’t use up the box of tissues like P.S. I Love You did, but tugs at the heartstrings nonetheless. Pick it up and get started on your summer reading early!
drey’s rating: Excellent!