I’ve read everything Cecelia Ahern has written, but normally try to wait for paperback, so when my friend got the hardback copy and then passed it on, I was thrilled to not have to wait!
Allegra Bird is a traffic warden just outside of Dublin, and is unnerved when an angry driver tells her that people are the average of the five people they spend the most time with, and so hers must be awful. She realises that she doesn’t know who her five people are, and that’s the focus of most of the book. There’s also a storyline about her trying to meet her mum who gave her up when she was born.
It was ok, but definitely not my favourite among the other books she’s written. I have two main frustrations:
- She decided not to use speech marks, which she hasn’t done before, but I’ve found a couple of other books do recently. I don’t get the point of this, all it really seems to do is make it harder to read!
- The ending wasn’t strong. It was anti-climactic, convenient and just a bit twee. I was disappointed to be honest.
I gave it 3 stars on Goodreads, not awful, but low for me I guess.
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