#ReadingChallenge: Sundays at Tiffany's

#ReadingChallenge

If this is your first time tuning in to my #ReadingChallenge, here's the skinny: For 2013 one of my personal challenges is to read one book a month. This has in turn become a blog challenge where I review each book I read and where necessary get some influences from each book.

Next on my list I checked out Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson. Yes...yes I know I'm late...but at least I read it.

Now this was definitely one of those cute love stories...but with a twist...a slightly creepy twist. Let me break it down (at least for those who didn't read the book), eight-year-old girl has a 30-year-old imaginary friend. Years later when eight-year-old girl is a fab young woman, somehow imaginary friend becomes real...and is still 30-years-old.

Then....they fall in love..............

Say what now...I'll admit I read the book thinking 'this is different.' But after finishing that last sentence and thinking back on the story (mostly for the sake of this review) it hit me that this is a bit...well it's a bit creepy...in a pedobear kinda way.

I'll be honest, it was an easy read and the storyline was interesting but it was kinda predictable (besides the creepy aspect of it). I will 100% admit that I probably kept reading because it was such an easy read.

On another note, I did expect more from the novel...more of what I'm not sure...but more of something. It's probably because persons make James Patterson sound like the god of novels. Yes the chapters were short and succinct, but the speaker changed from the girl to the guy quite often....sometimes causing me to wonder who's view I'm getting when I kinda lose track of where I was reading.

I wonder too if I'm on the fence about the book because of the fact that there are a few questions I have after reading it...questions that could have easily been answered in text, but were ignored. Maybe I'm just reading too deep into the book.

My #ReadingChallenge rating for Sundays at Tiffany's:

 

Overall it was a good book, the language, tone and setting of the novel really fit the characters and their story. I was a bit disappointed that it got more and more predictable as you got to the end of the novel...and I'll admit that I'm not sure whether it was given the 'New York Time Bestseller' title because of the author's reputation, or the book itself.

If you give this book a read, comment on this post and let me know what you think of it!