Operation Sunshine-Jenny Colgan

Colgan's created a very amature fiction summer novel for young teenage audiences. The storyline is about a women who goes on holiday with her work collegues who work in a plastic surgery. She goes abroad and is basically put through a film like storyline where she is the heroine of saving a cruise ship taking surgery loving women out to sea and implanting seals into them and killing seals for surgery purposes. The novel has the summer aspect of love as by the end of the novel she fixes up with one of her fellow surgeons the good one not the bad one who was a part of the evil cruise ship storyline. The last three chapters and the chapters involving a mans deception for the main character Evie as he is playing a spy and making love to her to gain information about the cruise ship she knew nothing about. As you may be able to tell the storyline is very expansive however not hard to follow when you actually read the novel. I wouldn't recommend this book as it isn't a gripping or inspiring novel but it is an average read that i managed to devulge within a day. Very easy reading to say the least.
***-3 Star Rating .... this is because i have never read a storyline like it before.

The Gift- Cecelia Ahern

This is a holiday fiction novel which does admittedly get you in the spirits of christmas; if you read near christmas and not in the middle of an English summer. However, this book has a wonderful message all about the gift of time and to spend it wisely as we all may know time is the greatest gift of all but many take advantages to this particular gift. There are some parts of this book however that are rather confusing for example the part where he confronts Gabe about the pill being a headache pill, it is hard to register if this is about a metaphor being uncovered or whether it is just a part of the story. Overall this book did make me think very deeply about life and all that we take for granted, the time period this book revolves around is a family time (christmas) where people should be around those they love. The main character Lou takes advantage of his family and it's only when he takes in Gabe off the streets that Gabe starts making Lou perceive things differently. The death of Lou in the last three chapters of the book had me in tears when he takes the pill and spends his last few moments as the clone of himself with his family. This is the only book where the ending has had me crying my eyes out. Very light read but you do need to read this little treasure alone as if other people are in the room you may feel slightly embarassed when the tears start to flow.
*****-5 Star Rating.

One Day- David Nicholls

This novel was given to me by my mother as she read it in one read and said it was a really insightful novel about not noticing whats right in front of you till its too late and just friendships and growing old. Each chapter is set on the same day so each chapter skips a year and show what the two characters are doing and whether they are in touch with one another after each year. It starts from 1988 and works it's way into the 20th Century which explores how age has developed for the two characters and how love has progressed from friendship to a marriage between the two of them. The women who i fell in love throughout this novel dies when she finally gets with Dexter who she has been in love with from chapter 1 (1988) and I think it allows the readers to consider and think deeply about the present and not taking anything for granted because you dont know when its just going to up and go. The storyline is so very unique as I have never read a book like this before and It is definetly a book I would recommend a mature reader to indulge into this book, you will definetly not be able to put it down.
*****-5 Star Rating.