My mum and I have been fans of Cecelia Ahern books since
her first book P.S. I Love You came out. Ahern's second book Where Rainbows
End is one of my favourite books, but then her future books got a stopped being
real and started being very imagination and away with the fairies based. But because
we liked the first two books, we carried on reading the others in the hope that
they would be as good as her first two.
Her latest book is The Year I Met You and is about Jasmine
and Matt who live on the same street. Jasmine co-founded a company that worked
with start-ups, but her contract was terminated and she was put on gardening
leave for a year. Matt was a very outspoken DJ who in turn also had his
contract terminated and was put on gardening leave also. He said something on
air years ago which offended Jasmine, so she has taken a strong dislike to him
ever since. The story is how they get to know each other over the year while
they deal with their loss of jobs.
The book wasn't one of Ahern's away with the fairy ones and
I enjoyed it. It was quite close to home at times as although I wasn't on
gardening leave, I didn't pass my probation at my last events job last year. So
I experienced the same uncertainty as to what to do next, the big void of the
unknown. The characters were well developed, however I think it would've been
better if there was a bit more emotion behind them when she described how they
immediately felt when starting their gardening leave. Ahern's writing style felt
like you were living in the same street as Matt and Jasmine, and that’s quite a
hard thing to achieve.
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