Author - Cecelia Ahern
Genre - Romance
No. of Pages - 592
Year of Publication - 2004
Rating - ❤️❤️(2.5)
The readers who loved Ahern's debut novel, (P.S. I Love You) must have searched for other books by her and must have come across this book, which is her second novel.
Same happened with me. I loved the former so much that I wanted to read more of Cecelia Ahern. And after reading other reviews of this book I came to know that this book is written in epistolary structure in the form of letters, text messages, e-mails, newspaper articles etc.
This aspect of the book made it stand out for me. This was the main thing that caught my interest and made me read this book. But apart from this factor, there wasn't much that caught my attention. Nothing too out of the way or too surprising happened.
Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart have been childhood friends but an unfortunate event occurs on their prom night and nothing is ever the same. And unintentionally, Alex is the one responsible for this mishap.
Alex gets into Harvard and moves away while Rosie is left alone as a single mother growing and learning from the hardships of raising a daughter without any support from his father, who isn't even in the scene in the starting. Alex and Rosie remain confused throughout the book whether they are meant to be just friends or something more.
I thanked God when finally at the end, they found the answer. The thing that I disliked the most is, no one can remain so confused, for so long period of time (decades). It was so annoying that Rosie and Alex kept on switching their spouses frequently. Divorce-marriage-divorce-etc.etc.
I think, while at one point, the epistolary factor gave a hype to this book, at another point it degraded the feelings and sentiments embedded in it. I didn't get the whole idea about how the characters felt. I couldn't put myself in their shoes. It was quite complicated, the reader-character relationship.
I would say it's a one time read. After all, it's interesting is it's your first epistolary novel (like me).
Warning: Don't read this book if you are obsessed with "Romance" genre. It will certainly shatter your expectations.
Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)
More books by Cecelia Ahern:
P.S. I Love You
Genre - Romance
No. of Pages - 592
Year of Publication - 2004
Rating - ❤️❤️(2.5)
The readers who loved Ahern's debut novel, (P.S. I Love You) must have searched for other books by her and must have come across this book, which is her second novel.
Same happened with me. I loved the former so much that I wanted to read more of Cecelia Ahern. And after reading other reviews of this book I came to know that this book is written in epistolary structure in the form of letters, text messages, e-mails, newspaper articles etc.
This aspect of the book made it stand out for me. This was the main thing that caught my interest and made me read this book. But apart from this factor, there wasn't much that caught my attention. Nothing too out of the way or too surprising happened.
Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart have been childhood friends but an unfortunate event occurs on their prom night and nothing is ever the same. And unintentionally, Alex is the one responsible for this mishap.Alex gets into Harvard and moves away while Rosie is left alone as a single mother growing and learning from the hardships of raising a daughter without any support from his father, who isn't even in the scene in the starting. Alex and Rosie remain confused throughout the book whether they are meant to be just friends or something more.
I thanked God when finally at the end, they found the answer. The thing that I disliked the most is, no one can remain so confused, for so long period of time (decades). It was so annoying that Rosie and Alex kept on switching their spouses frequently. Divorce-marriage-divorce-etc.etc.
I think, while at one point, the epistolary factor gave a hype to this book, at another point it degraded the feelings and sentiments embedded in it. I didn't get the whole idea about how the characters felt. I couldn't put myself in their shoes. It was quite complicated, the reader-character relationship.
I would say it's a one time read. After all, it's interesting is it's your first epistolary novel (like me).
Warning: Don't read this book if you are obsessed with "Romance" genre. It will certainly shatter your expectations.
Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)
More books by Cecelia Ahern:
P.S. I Love You
Comments
Post a Comment