Are you taking your life for granted?
Lucy Silchester is. And she’s lost sight of everything important.
Because Lucy’s lying to herself – and to everyone else – about what’s going on. Her friends are cut short, her family cold-shouldered and her work colleagues tricked. Only Lucy herself knows the truth.
Time for a wake-up call – an invitation to an appointment with life. Her life. Who in this case turns out to be a kindly, run-down man in a bad suit, who is determined to change things, and won’t let Lucy off the hook.
She’s going to have to make time for him.
Rating: 4 Stars
Positives: So this book really wasn't what I was expecting. I had no idea that Life would be an actual person. And not a person that only Lucy can see. Everyone can see him. So yeah having a life agency tell you that you need to meet with your life and then having Life just spend all this time with you is a new and different idea. But it worked really well.
I love how Lucy starts off by lying to the reader, but as she spends more time with Life and learns to become more honest we get much more of an insight into her. However we can maybe understand why she is the way she is; after all Lucy's family are all perfectionists and have high flying careers, and Lucy's ex Blake has done really well for himself as well. To them Lucy, who went slightly off the rails and got caught in a huge web of lies from when she and Blake split, is a bit of a disappointment.
There's also a beautiful little love triangle in this story. Even though it's been three years since they split Lucy is still head over for heels for Blake, but could that all change with the arrival of Don? For once Lucy finds that she has to break the habit of a lifetime and start being honest, not only with her friends but with herself as well.
Negatives: Every book has at least one negative, and this is no exception. My only criticism is that it took me several chapters to get into the story, mainly because as the story was being told by Lucy she would keep going off an a tangent. This made the first few chapters quite hard to follow, but after that the story picked up.
Would I recommend this book? Yes this is a lovely piece of work by Cecelia Ahern and I really enjoyed it. There's some beautiful comedy moments if you have my sense of humour as well. All I'm saying is Life googled moobs after being told he had them by Lucy.
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