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A review by merlandese
A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern
4.0
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.