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A review by anjumstar
The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
5.0
Wow, my old review for this book is so wrong. I just reread it, and it's a really good book. Yes, it's predictable at times, but at others, it's really not. By biggest critique would be that the guys in this story are 'Mary-Sues' (I don't remember the guy name for it right now) but that means that they're perfect characters. They're basically flawless. The reason for an author using this is two-fold, I guess. One, it keeps the focus on the girls and two, it makes them easy to fall in love with. Unfortunately, it also makes them really boring. Bradley got boring and a little annoying really quickly. Matt didn't as much just because he was only tossed into the middle of the book occasionally so that you didn't forget about him between the first few chapters and the last one.
Other than that, the book was really good. Usually, you just see the sisters (or friends or whatever) start apart and then grow together. Here, though, the path is a little more winding, just because they completely switch places. It's a pretty unique idea, especially when it's done in a realistic fiction kind of way, rather than a Freaky Friday kind of way. As sad as it makes us, a tumor is much more likely then a magic fortune-cookie.
Also, I hate Freaky Friday.
One thing this author did really well was giving a lot of foreshadowing. Especially both about Alex's tumor and about her being a genius, because there's little sprinkles of that all through the book. And Lindsey and Matt's eventual relationship, but I think that would have been obvious even without all of the foreshadowing at the beginning.
I completely recommend this book.
Other than that, the book was really good. Usually, you just see the sisters (or friends or whatever) start apart and then grow together. Here, though, the path is a little more winding, just because they completely switch places. It's a pretty unique idea, especially when it's done in a realistic fiction kind of way, rather than a Freaky Friday kind of way. As sad as it makes us, a tumor is much more likely then a magic fortune-cookie.
Also, I hate Freaky Friday.
One thing this author did really well was giving a lot of foreshadowing. Especially both about Alex's tumor and about her being a genius, because there's little sprinkles of that all through the book. And Lindsey and Matt's eventual relationship, but I think that would have been obvious even without all of the foreshadowing at the beginning.
I completely recommend this book.