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A review by mrsbooknerd
The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern
4.0
I'm really not entirely sure what happened in this book but I know that I really enjoyed it and would absolutely read another by Ahern.
The whole idea of having a physical representation of your life who comes to your rescue when you need them is a weird and almost inconceivable notion, and though I got used to this as a central plot point I still didn't fully understand it, even by the end. Feeling that the whole system was never really explained or developed.
The banter and dialogue was by far the best that I've read in a novel in a really long time, it was serious when it needed to be but genuinely laugh-out-loud funny at other times.
I liked almost all of the characters in the novel though it was roughly 500 pages long and by half way I was so annoyed with Lucy who remained stubbornly undeveloped right up until the final few chapters. I wanted to reach into the pages and give her a massive shake. There is a line between making your readers purposely frustrated with a character, and making them bored with them, and I feel that this book just crossed the line for me.
Still, I did enjoy it despite the criticisms and way-out plot!
The whole idea of having a physical representation of your life who comes to your rescue when you need them is a weird and almost inconceivable notion, and though I got used to this as a central plot point I still didn't fully understand it, even by the end. Feeling that the whole system was never really explained or developed.
The banter and dialogue was by far the best that I've read in a novel in a really long time, it was serious when it needed to be but genuinely laugh-out-loud funny at other times.
I liked almost all of the characters in the novel though it was roughly 500 pages long and by half way I was so annoyed with Lucy who remained stubbornly undeveloped right up until the final few chapters. I wanted to reach into the pages and give her a massive shake. There is a line between making your readers purposely frustrated with a character, and making them bored with them, and I feel that this book just crossed the line for me.
Still, I did enjoy it despite the criticisms and way-out plot!