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nancyflanagan 's review for:
A Day Like This
by Kelley McNeil
Looks like this is McNeill’s first novel; I would give another one of her books a try. But this one had a number of flaws—or maybe it was just oversold.
There’s an interesting premise—what if you woke up after a traumatic experience and found you were living a different life than the one you remembered from before the crisis? There are lots of books with similar mojos—amnesia is the oldest literary trick in the book.
McNeill takes it all very seriously, so the plot drags as Annie, the protagonist, struggles to reconcile her old life and her new life, both of which are real to her. There are blind alleys and things that feel like clues, but go nowhere. There’s also a lot of padding, as Annie tries to figure out what happened to her—a mysterious woman, a nursery rhyme, and endless detail about a yellow house.
The plot sort of resolves, but it’s anticlimactic, leaving some characters hanging. All in all, an OK but flawed read. Three stars.
There’s an interesting premise—what if you woke up after a traumatic experience and found you were living a different life than the one you remembered from before the crisis? There are lots of books with similar mojos—amnesia is the oldest literary trick in the book.
McNeill takes it all very seriously, so the plot drags as Annie, the protagonist, struggles to reconcile her old life and her new life, both of which are real to her. There are blind alleys and things that feel like clues, but go nowhere. There’s also a lot of padding, as Annie tries to figure out what happened to her—a mysterious woman, a nursery rhyme, and endless detail about a yellow house.
The plot sort of resolves, but it’s anticlimactic, leaving some characters hanging. All in all, an OK but flawed read. Three stars.