
The One That I Want
But everything's not OK in Tilly's world. First, her mother died of cancer when Tilly was in high school, which tore apart her family. It kicked off her father's drinking problem. Her younger sister became one of those stick thin aspiring musicians who ran off to Los Angeles at the first chance and comes storming back into town to raise everyone's hackles. Tilly and her husband have fallen into a well worn groove, and while Tilly thinks everything's perfect, it's not.
This unease is amplified when a chance meeting with a forgotten middle school friend enables Tilly with a curse/gift. She can flash forward to see what happens to people in her life, which sets the novel in motion.
It's a good book. I read the first 150 pages on the plane. It's better than Allison's first novel, but I liked Time of My Life
But that doesn't mean it's not a good book. I know plenty of women like Tilly Farmer who will have the same experience I did when reading about Jillian Westfield. And for a beach book, it's perfect - a quick yet thoughtful read. It comes out at the perfect time, too - June 1.
So have you ever had the same experience? Where you like one author's works better than others based on whether you can identify with the main character?
P.S. Forgot to add the pic of where I read the rest of the book. Ah, vacation...so soon a memory.
Comments
Nicely done.
I TOTALLY see what Jen means, and I feel the same way about books, so I think this is very fair - I don't always "click" with a character, but that doesn't mean a book wasn't good - it just means that my take-away was different than what someone else's would be.
Thanks for writing this up, Jen!
Allison