I’ve just finished reading How to
Fall in Love by Cecelia Ahern. To be honest, I never know what to expect from
her books. She’s a wonderful writer but sometimes her stories disappoint me
somehow. That’s why when I saw this book on the library I thought twice about
buying it. As a real bookworm, I couldn’t resist. Thank God I didn’t,
cuz it really is amazing and surprised me in a very good way.
One thing about reading I really
adore is the possibility of experiencing different points of views, usually
situations you’ve never imagined yourself into and make something out of it, learn
values and see life from another perspective, and it was exactly that
feeling I had reading this book.
As you can read the description
above, it tells the story of Christine Rose, whose marriage just
collapsed and witnessed a suicide. After all the sorrow she starts looking
for her happy place and find herself on a bridge in Dublin stopping a young
man, Adam, from jumping of the bridge. What she doesn’t realize is that by
saving him she is also saving herself. Throughout the book we see her
trying to achieve her goal which is making Adam see how wonderful life is. She totally takes control of his
life and promise him that 2 weeks he will have everything he’s just lost back
to him. Cecelia really knows how to write, the fact that she took such a
strong, serious topic as suicide and wrote a light, hopeful and tender book
about it it’s impressive. Not only did she wrote a delightful story but she
also make it so realistic, no life is a bed of flowers, full of rainbows.
Everyone has ups and downs and sometimes we need to seek medical help or just
a good listener to help us through. We just need to remind ourselves that
every cloud has a silver lining.
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