BOOK REVIEW: The Year I met You by cecelia ahern.

The year I met you is the second book that I read by the author Cecelia Ahearn, the first one was: LOVE, ROSIE. it was written as letters from Rosie to her family members, friends and vice versa.

The year I met you is written in a specific way also, jasmine (the heroine) is addressing her neighbor MATT, she address him as ‘you’ throughout the novel, it’s a different way to tell a story and I really enjoyed it.

Jasmine is a strong woman, she had a successful career in building and developing startups until she gets fired and was thrown into a year of gardening leave, and then the shock started, she felt hopeless, worthless, she reached the limit of madness when she couldn’t adapt to the new life, far from getting up early and heading to work to save problem, because she used to consider herself as a problem solver.

She started noticing people around her, neighbors that she has never took a while to give a wave or a smile back to, she found herself emerged –without even wanting to- in the life of Matt MARSHALL , the man she has always least tolerated and the one that become a dear friend as the book’s events progress.

Being obsessed about the safety of her sister who has  down syndrome, facing her father and the consequences of being jobless, finding her way out from all these things is what this book handle through a year of challenges starting from winter to autumn.

It’s really interessting how destiny put in our ways people who seems to need help, and by helping them and caring about them ,we realise that we are doing the same for ourselves.

Cheerrrss!