Book Blurb:
It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order…
My Review: 4 stars
Oona Out of Order was an utterly charming and surprising book. I expected a quick and easy chick-lit/women’s fiction book and ended with exactly that and some valuable messages about life and how to live it.
Let’s face it, I love a good time-travel story and this one took a new spin on the concept. There was nothing linear about this and that in itself was intriguing. Each year, Oona would find herself at an older age, always in the future, yet moving forwards and backwards. The insight she garnered through these generation gaps was insightful and often hysterical. Each decade brought its own hair styles, fads, new bands and of course, information about the stock market. The book starts in 1982, so after Oona’s first jump, several decades later, she has absolutely no clue about the internet, a tablet or a laptop. It’s comical when she goes back to earlier years and suddenly has to live without those luxuries.
Oona starts the book with a serious boyfriend, her one true love. Her mind is torn on whether she should stay with him and their band or go to London to study economics. This decision is what seemingly prompts her time warp. Dale, the boyfriend, plays a huge role throughout the book, as he still occupies much of her headspace. There are two other important characters, her mom and a young man that acts as her personal assistant. It’s never understood why they just “get” her time jumps and take it as normal. I suppose if they went with it, so would I to enjoy the story to its fullest.
If you’re looking for an easy read that will make you think about the importance of every day because you’ll never get that day back, then you’ll really enjoy this one.
Quotes I liked:
All good things end, always. The trick is to enjoy them while they last.”
“It felt as if my whole life had been shaped by the things people wouldn’t say.”
There would be bad days, there always would. But she’d collect these good days, each one illuminated, and string them together until they glowed brightly in her memory like Christmas lights in a mirrored room.”
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