This book is extremely popular on the internet and even among my real life book geek friends but to tell you honestly, I am nothing but disappointed with this.
Plot. The story seemed interesting enough in itself. 'A' isn't like any of us because one day he's one person, and the next, he's another. He doesn't mind switching bodies everyday, that is until he meets Rhiannon. It's not something we see very often so you can understand why it's piqued so many people's interest. The plot rotates on A's condition and his yearning to be with someone he knows he can't have. It sucks, you pity him but really, I thought there's going to be something else but that's it. Even when the author crafted this 'possession action', it was still very dry.
Dialogue. There's barely any dialogue in this (even if you count the emails). No wonder I was so bored I could hardly finish it. I love dialogues but even with minimal dialogues, I know I can still love a book (happened with Mitch Albom's The Time Keeper). What stopped me from abandoning it is that (a) I've already wasted so much time reading this and (b) I want to know what happens to A and Rhiannon. Will they end up together? Will A ever be normal? Is this all a dream?
| Don't I look bored? |
Characters. Pretty dull and boring and the whole book was written in A's POV! Perhaps the only thing I liked about this book is that it gave us a hazy sight of what it's like to live different lives. What goes around the mind of a girl? A guy? A drug addict? A depressed person? Someone with OCD? A normal kid? A rich kid? A poor kid?
