A review by thelauramay
The Gift by Cecelia Ahern

2.0

I, now realising that the author wrote PS I Love You (I've seen the film only--philistine!), wish I could have liked this book more. Because apparently I'm pretentious like that. I guess I just couldn't relate to the characters, to the emotions she described, to the things the characters were going through. I found the narrative jumpy at times, particularly near the beginning, where very different scenes are set with no protagonist in sight. I also found her epilogue in particular very condescending. Nonetheless, I'm very impressed at the girl's ability to write--as if you write an international best-seller at 21 years old, how crazy is that! I'm part curious and part envious that she could write so passionately about love at that age. Okay, so this is getting off track.
In short (she said, too late), it's sort of a modern version of Dickens' Christmas Carol.