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Title- Someone Else's Life.
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Title- Someone Else's Life.
Author- Katie Dale.
Publish date- March 2012.
Publisher- Simon and Schuster.
RRP: $16.99
Synopsis:
After her mother dies from Huntington's disease, Rosie Kenning's whole world falls apart; she no longer has the one person she longs to confide in and is faced with the knowledge that she may have the disease herself... until she finds out that her mother wasn't her biological mother at all, even though Rosie grew up hearing the stories of how she came into the world.
Rosie's whole world is spinning out of control and she doesn't know what to do... other then face the underlying question of who her real mother is. And that is when things take on the feeling of an adventure..
Thank you to Simon and Schuster for this review copy!
What I thought:
I couldn't get into the story of Someone Else's Life- right from the beginning I was a little confused, as it goes between two stories, a mystery (until later in the story) girl and then to Rosie, alternating chapter by chapter, and that didn't make any sense to me to start with, or for quite a while- I couldn't understand what was happening, so that was a downside for quite a lot of the story; the other reason I didn't particularly enjoy it and overall didn't like this book, I just couldn't see what Rosie was seeing- I don't like some of the things she decided to do and couldn't feel any sympathy for her character, though I should've.
I don't like the cover in the flesh as much as I liked it when I saw pictures of it- the weeping flowers drawn on Rosie's desk look wrong and the model portraying Rosie, though looking how I picture Rosie, doesn't look 100% right, but then, thinking about it more, she is supopsed to have come back from her mother's funeral, I think (the red dress she wore to the funeral) so she fits it more when I think about that.
So for me, Someone Else's Life is actually Someone Else's Read- I would recommend trying to find an excerpt or borrowing a copy before comitting to buying your own, just in case you don't like it.
Romi.x
that's a shame because i really like the look of the cover and thought the huntington's/not real mother idea could make a really interesting story.
ReplyDeleteOh, Sad! I had been looking forward to this one, but I have to admit it was mostly cover love. Thanks for the review!
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