Buzzword Title Challenge 25: Alliteration
Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Eyes
CBR17 Bingo: O (A book title that starts with O)
Official plot summary (because I read this back in July):
Just because life may be out of order, doesn’t mean it’s broken.
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…
Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever-changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveller? Wife to a man she’s never met?
Oona Out of Order is a remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of sequence.
This is one of those books I bought in an e-book sale many years ago and then pretty much forgot about, until it fit into a bunch of my reading challenges this year. Based on the blurb, I wasn’t entirely sure if this was going to work for me, but I was pleasantly surprised, and the author was able to sustain the high concept throughout the book.
Full review on my blog.