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ermykneeandwheezy 's review for:
The Book of Tomorrow
by Cecelia Ahern
This book wasn't really at all what I expected it to be. I almost didn't even finish it because I could barely make it through the first few chapters. I just found them to be so wordy and tedious that I began wondering if I should even bother with the rest of the book. I managed to convince myself to keep reading though, and while I found that Ahern's writing did eventually become more exciting and less wordy, this book still didn't live up to my expectations.
One of my biggest problems with this story is that the diary/The Book of Tomorrow wasn't really a focal point. I mean this book is called, 'The Book of Tomorrow,' and its synopsis made me interested because the idea is just so different and magical. Yet I felt like the diary barely made an appearance in the story, at least not enough to have this book named for it. It took what to me felt like forever for the travelling library to even appear, and when Tamara finally got her hands on the diary, she only seemed to read entries from it a handful of times.
Aside from the first few chapters which were slow, and the idea of the Book of Tomorrow, I found the plot of this book pretty good, especially as the story continued. Each chapter got more and more interesting and I found the end to be exciting and fast-paced - very different from the rest of the book, but in a good way.
In the end, I feel like this book could have done without the diary. It just didn't really seem very essential to the plot, and I feel as if Tamara could have figured things out without it. For me it was an element that seemed to be added to the story to make it more interesting, but really just got in the way of an already entertaining plot.
One of my biggest problems with this story is that the diary/The Book of Tomorrow wasn't really a focal point. I mean this book is called, 'The Book of Tomorrow,' and its synopsis made me interested because the idea is just so different and magical. Yet I felt like the diary barely made an appearance in the story, at least not enough to have this book named for it. It took what to me felt like forever for the travelling library to even appear, and when Tamara finally got her hands on the diary, she only seemed to read entries from it a handful of times.
Aside from the first few chapters which were slow, and the idea of the Book of Tomorrow, I found the plot of this book pretty good, especially as the story continued. Each chapter got more and more interesting and I found the end to be exciting and fast-paced - very different from the rest of the book, but in a good way.
In the end, I feel like this book could have done without the diary. It just didn't really seem very essential to the plot, and I feel as if Tamara could have figured things out without it. For me it was an element that seemed to be added to the story to make it more interesting, but really just got in the way of an already entertaining plot.