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A review by literarywallflower
Upside Down, Inside Out by Monica McInerney
3.0
This book was a gift and has been on my shelf since 2011 and I just got around to reading it. Although it definitely was not what I normally choose for myself, it was a quick, easy read. Upside Down Inside Out was a delightful little story about two people pretending to be someone they aren't and then fall in love… the rest is kind of easy to figure out. There were a few plot twists, but nothing that couldn't be easily predicted. The beginning was a little slow, getting into the story took awhile, but once I did I enjoyed it. It wasn't boring, by the middle I couldn't wait to figure out what happened between Eva and Joseph, and by the end, being a stickler for sappy, unrealistic love stories, was completely rooting for them!
The book took place in multiple different settings: Ireland, London, and Australia, so figuring out where they were when could be a bit confusing and being from America some of the slang that the author used was foreign to me, but nothing I couldn't figure out from context clues. At some points the characters think things over with themselves in their heads and normally I would find this to be annoying, but I thought the way she did it was a good addition to the voice of the novel. Overall I would say it was a cute little book that is a very light read. Definitely not a “keep you on the edge of your seat” or “captivating from page one”, but it was quirky and not a complete waste of the priceless minutes of my life.
The book took place in multiple different settings: Ireland, London, and Australia, so figuring out where they were when could be a bit confusing and being from America some of the slang that the author used was foreign to me, but nothing I couldn't figure out from context clues. At some points the characters think things over with themselves in their heads and normally I would find this to be annoying, but I thought the way she did it was a good addition to the voice of the novel. Overall I would say it was a cute little book that is a very light read. Definitely not a “keep you on the edge of your seat” or “captivating from page one”, but it was quirky and not a complete waste of the priceless minutes of my life.