What do You think about The Boy I Loved Before (2005)?
Im re reading this book a fav of mine.Who wouldnt want that chance to go back and do it all again ,make some changes along the way .A chance to go back to those teen years again.:)The lovely idea of being able to make a wish as Flora did an be transported back ,although in this book Flora gets to be a teen again in the present day ,id find that a little more scary :)id prefer to be a teen in the 80s again .A brilliant book ,you.ll want to read again ,their are only so many books that dont loose their magic after a first read ,this is one of them .
—Louise Annette Marshall
This is a sort of 13 going on 30 book, but in reverse. Flora is 32 and has what people would think of as a good life - a good office job, a nice, safe boyfriend, a best friend... But she's bored. She realizes she never wanted this middley life and wishes that she'd go back to 16 to fix it. The trick is, she turns 16, and her parents get younger, but she's still in present time (2003 I think they said). The only people who recognize her as her are her best friend Tashy (I hate that name), her boyfriend, and her long lost love. Flo has to figure out how to get back to her self, whether she wants to get back to herself, and how to fix her life. For chick lit, this is pretty thoughtful, and also a very quick read. Her boring, supposedly great, life is exactly what I don't want to happen to me, and why I'm leaving Boston and my job. I think I can do it without magic...
—Merredith
What the..? In a nutshell, 32 year old Flora is unhappy with her lot. At her best friends wedding, she makes a wish when the cake is cut - "I wish I was 16 again" cue her waking up the following morning as her 16 year old self. The premise is similar to the film "13 going on 30" but nowhere near as smooth. What essentially started out as a time travel concept quickly turned into a jumbled muddle. She hadn't gone back 16 years - she'd simply turned 16 again. For some reason she had gone back in time a mere month and only certain people from her "previous life" recognised or knew her. Her parents also travelled back to the age they were when she was 16 too. Confused? ME TOO. I don't UNDERSTAND. Sure there were sweet chick-lit-ish parts but mostly I'm just confused at all the backward and forwards and time travelling-but-not-really scenes.
—Zoe
