If You Were Me
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If You Were Me
Narrated by:
Grainne Gillis
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Narrated by:
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Grainne Gillis
About this listen
Sheila O'Flanagan's best seller If You Were Me will make listeners wonder: what would I do if my first love came back into my life? A must-listen if you enjoy the novels of Veronica Henry and Catherine Alliott.
You're engaged to a great man. You're on a countdown to your wedding day. You stopped thinking about your first love a long time ago. But what if one unexpected, forbidden kiss were to throw your life upside down?
Carlotta O'Keefe suddenly finds herself wondering if the girl she was would recognise the woman she has become. She thought she was living a charmed life. But what if she's got it all wrong? What if her past is meant to be her future?
©2014 Sheila O'Flanagan (P)2014 Headline Publishing Group LtdBrilliant !
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The first 3 chapters are a drag and I had to really push to get through.... until she runs into Luke, and then it gets interesting.
Carlotta is a successful career woman, happily engaged to be married to Chris who is a kind, dependable & supportive bloke. On a business trip to Spain, Carlotta runs into Luke, her childhood best friend and first love who disappeared mysteriously when she was 15.
Doubts and confusion set in when she spends a platonic evening with Luke in Seville and she practically turns her brain inside out wondering "what if".
At a high level, the story is fine although I found some of Carlotta's interactions and reactions / responses a bit irritating. The way she handled Kieran was weak & pitiful and in stark contrast to the way she handled Dorothea, her future mother in law.
The author has a tendency to ramble and I found myself skipping forward quite frequently.
Aiofe McMahon once again hits a home run with the narration.
Okay, but not the best of Sheila's books
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It held so much promise... but it disappoint in the end. I found the story was ok.
A few things that just didn't make this book to 4 stars for me.
1) I can understand that the author wants to keep some kind of suspense and not reveal everything at the start but my god it took forever to actually tell us what happened between Carlotta and Luke all this time ago and there was no reason to keep it from the readers for so long, it didn't bring anything 'wow' into the plot.
2) who in their right mind don't ask someone who disappeared one night, never to be seen, what the heck happened?
3) the female role of Carlotta was not as feminist as she should have been, considering how she was portrayed as a whole. She was weak and stupid. I don't understand the appeal of female characters depicted like that. Why on earth would she not tell her 'best' friend of the chauvinistic colleague of hers at the start of her friends relationship with him. Of course when she did tell him it was too late.
AND what sealed the deal for me was the ending when she has decided her career is more important to her, to drop the important meeting to stay with the 'guy'. DISAPPOINTING. Ideal ending would be to have it all: Fast forward a week, she has gone to the meeting, he has followed her to Dublin and bam! happy ending.
No I don't recommend this book. We can do better female characters authors, please.
Performance:
Aofie is THE BEST narrator ever. *****5 stars easily.
It held so much promise...
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Love the narrator Aofia McMahon her voice is mesmerising
A little predictable
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Teenage angst never really leaves us...
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Dragged on too long
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