Book one-hundred-and-twenty-four: A Place Called Here

A Place Called Here (2006)
Cecelia Ahern

Rating: 1.5/5
[The 115: 10 /115]

Weird, depressing and a little slow.

The main character (or one of them) was really un-likable too. Actually, pretty much all you heard about this character, including from her own thoughts, was how un-likable she was. How broken and selfish and beyond help.

Why would you want to spend 300 plus pages with that is beyond me. It was just depressing.

It was an interesting concept, but I think it was a little too slow to be successful.

All that being said, it is well written. And I wouldn’t mind reading something else written by her, if it wasn’t so depressing. And it really does have a beautiful cover.

Since Sandy Shortt’s childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding becomes her goal- whether it’s the sock that vanished in the washing machine, the car keys she misplaced or the graver issue of finding the people who vanish from their lives. Sandy dedicates her life to finding these missing people, offering devastated families a flicker of hope.

Jack Ruttle is one of those desperate people. It’s been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air. Thinking Sandy Shortt could well be the answer to his prayers, he embarks on a quest to find her.

But when Sandy goes missing too, she stumbles upon the place - and people - she’s been looking for all her life. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home…

---

Finished: Tuesday 31/7