Review: Brilliant all the Way Through
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
Loved this book! I knew it involved time-travelling from the premise and I must admit, I did wonder whether I was going to like that aspect. Dr Who is about the only time-traveller I'll tolerate but, nonetheless, Hindsight intrigued me so I thought I'd give it a go. Well, I'm so glad I did. Not only is this book hilarious in places - and I mean laugh out loud on occasions, it also made me cry - I won't tell you when and why, you'll have to read it to find out. And it didn't just make me well up once, it did it twice - woah! Extremely well written, it deals with a lot of serious issues too - the idea that women can have it all in today's world, a hard-hitting career, a demanding family, time for herself (as if!) is challenged - at some point something's gotta give, but what? That's the dilemma modern-day Juliette faces, it takes a trip back in time to help her realise what's important in life and that there's such a thing as balance. With that trip back to the 1961, come other issues - people who should have been in modern-day Juliette's life, but for some reason aren't. Enough said on that already - I don't want to spoil any surprises and this book did surprise me. Like I said, I loved it.