The book of tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern

This is my first book by Cecelia. I know that she is also the author of P.S I love you, but I have never read the book, just watched the movie (At that time I had a crush on Gerald Butler....he he he...At this rate I will know of books just because they have been made into movies with hot heroes). I liked the movie and cried buckets, but it never interested me enough to go and pick the book up. I came across this one because it was suggested to me by my library reading list and the blurb looked quite interesting. But after that I came across other interesting things to read and this book took a back seat. I recently finished reading it though and I liked it. It's not my all time favorite, but it did not make me feel like I totally wasted my time or money.

This book has been marketed as a YA fiction. I am not really sure of the YA tag, because, it has a bit of obscene talk coming out of mouths of 16 year old children, but then again, maybe that is how this "generation" is. I am the old hag, who still thinks that such things are not cool, so I do not want to be judgmental here. 

This is the story of a 16 year old girl by the name of Tamara Goodwin. She hates her last name (which one of us did not in that age) and is a normal teenage girl. She belongs to the extremely privileged section of society. Her father is into the construction business and is very rich. They have houses in all the posh localities of the world and vacation in the usual exotic places. Tamara stays with both her parents and is the typical teenage girl who sneaks out with her friends at night and who loves shopping. Everything seems hunky-dorky or so she thinks, until her father commits suicide. Tamara, unfortunately, is the one who finds his body. Her father is in deep debt, and so, both she and her mother are asked to vacate the house. This move is very tough on Tamara who has her earliest memories in that house.They move in with her aunt Rosaleen and her uncle Arthur who are very peculiar people living in the countryside. Here Tamara's mum goes into depression and Tamara tries her best to rebel against her aunt and uncle. She is bored out of her mind, but then, meets a cute guy Marcus who runs a traveling library. Just to make sure that this guy keeps coming back to meet her she borrows a strange book that she finds. This book has a lock on it, which she manages to break open with the help of a nun, Sister Ignatius. She discovers that this is a diary and is initially disappointed until she discovers that this diary tells her what exactly is going to happen to her the next day.Then the book is supposed to take us on a magical journey (I did not get the magic, but like I said above, maybe I am just too old). It is the story of Tamara getting to know her roots, appreciating her life and getting to know lots of secrets about her past. 

The book in itself is interesting if you manage to make it to almost half of the book. I, for one, found the pace extremely slow. But towards the end it picks up pace and it makes you want to turn pages to find out how it ends. I was not sure why Tamara had two love interests. It confused me, because I did not really see the point. The characters of her mum (who is named Jennifer by the way) does not have anything much to do in the entire book other than be sleepy and lethargic. Rosaleen (Rose) is an interesting and one if the main characters. Arthur again has nothing much to do other than snort. My favorite character was Sister Ignatius. I just liked her happy go lucky nature. 

Will I pick another book from the same author? Hmm....Maybe I will, but only if, I have the time to kill (and I mean that). If you enjoy books of this genre and of this author I think you will like it. So pick accordingly.