A review by linneak
The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern

4.0

I'll admit, I judged this book by its cover. Not that it's a bad cover- just that books with this kind of title and accompanying cheesy stylized cover art are just fluff. But I'm happy to say that I am standing pleasantly corrected. 'The Time of My Life', penned by the same author as 'P.S. I Love You', is a sweet, hilarious, poignant and heartfelt novel about a girl named Lucy who has a appointment made for her with... her life. At first, the concept was pretty strange for me to read about (and strange for our heroine too), but as the story progresses, you grow to wish that this concept of literally meeting up with your life to sort things out was real. It's pretty brilliant actually. And it was great to read about Lucy and her life, and how paying attention and taking care of her life reaped tremendous rewards for her, even though the path was paved with mishaps, awkwardness and school of hard knocks lessons (to the delightful entertainment of the reader). This novel had such great life and character, and was surprisingly very relatable in situations both good and bad. Who knew one could be prompted to reflect on so many important moral questions from what appears to be a saccharine happy ending book? A great read all in all.