Genre: Fiction—Novel
Completed: 15 December 2015
Summary & Review:
Alice wakes up on the floor of a gym, a gym she has never been in before. She learns from the unfamiliar people around her that she fell of her stationary bike and hit her head during a spin class, something she had never attended before. She is 29, madly in love with her husband, and pregnant. Eventually, however, Alice realizes that something is not right. The fall has caused her to completely forget the last 10 years of her life. She’s not 29, anymore. She’s 39, has three kids, and is in the middle of a nasty divorce. How did things turn out this way?
First, I’ll just give the obligatory “spoiler alert.” Okay. I really liked the premise of this book. It was very interesting to think about what it would be like to suddenly be ten years older with no memory of what happened during the intervening span. Would you feel like a stranger in your own life? Would you be happy with how your life turned out? Would you like the sort of person you had become? Moriarty did a great job exploring this through out the novel as Alice, mentally 29, examined her 39-year-old self and life. The book was great right up until Alice got her memory back. Then things kind of fell apart a little bit. The narrative became a little choppy and disjointed and Moriarty almost completely blew up everything. If Alice hadn’t gotten back together with Nick then the whole experience of losing her memory would have been completely pointless! Thankfully, Moriarty decided on the right ending.
Merry Christmas Eve eve!
Rating: 7.5
Major spoiler alert!! :) I hope she comes out with a new book soon!
ReplyDeleteI gave fair warning! I couldn't give an accurate review without addressing the ending on this one.
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