fantasy
Oona has an issue. Starting at the stroke of midnight on her
19th birthday, and every new year thereafter, she leaps into a
random year of her life instead of living her life chronologically.
I loved the concept and the execution of Oona Out of Order!
It was reminiscent of The Time Traveler’s Wife (which I adored very long ago). Despite the far-fetched premise of the story,
the author does a great job of making it all seem plausible…. well…except for
the leap when she emerges into the time in which Edward if present. (I can’t
say more without giving stuff away but I found it highly unlikely that he would
be so accepting of Oona’s “situation”.) Despite that, I loved experiencing
Oona’s strange and difficult life with her. There were some creative aspects
and surprises. My main complaint is that I felt Margarita Montimore lingered in two time
periods too long and I would have preferred an additional year or two of her life
than all that detail on those two years. Alas, it was still a great ride and
even became very touching near the end. I do love a good time travel novel!
The narrator was Brittany Pressley and she was terrific! She
had a fairly decent voice repertoire and did a marvelous job acting all the
different people, different accents, and different Oonas. I give her an A+.
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