Monday 28 April 2014

Follow Up Fail

The World That I Remembered (The Shells of Chanticleer, #2)
The World That I Remembered is Maura Patrick's sequel to The Shells of Chanticleer.

Macy struggles to resume her normal life.  Sunsets, swimming pools, and church bells create jarring, repeated episodes of deja vu that convince her she is going insane.  She is haunted not only by strange memories, but by the feeling that she broke the heart of someone who had been very good to her.  Then there are the mysterious diamond earrings found in her possessions. Shaped like capital Cs, there are beautiful and antique, but no one she knows will admit to giving them to her.  She knows they are meant for her, but their existence in her life confounds her.  With a nagging feeling that there is more to this life than what appears on Earth, Macy struggles to make peace with the memories that taunt her.  Until one snowy day, memory and destiny collide, hurling her back through time and space to that faraway world she knew was out there- the world that she remembered.

The Breakdown:
1. I liked The Shells of Chanticleer, but this sequel was quite the disappointment.  The writing and the story have a very choppy feel to it, which made it hard to really get into the book in the first place.

2. Macy goes back to Chanticleer to be with Sebastian, but it seems they are are rarely together, and when they are together, the chemistry between them is practically non-existent.

3.Then there is Sebastian, and he sure does not act or talk the least bit like a guy born, raised, and died in the 1700s.  Then there is the "joke" he and his father play on Macy, which is down right cruel, feeding into her insecurities and having her questioning whether Sebastian really wants to be with her.

4. Oh the glaring mistake, when Sebastian's uncle, who was older than Sebastian, said he died in 1892 which would have been about hundred years after the end of the Revolutionary War.

To Read or Not to Read:
Don't waste your time on this one

Currently Reading:
Gathering Blue
by Lois Lowery

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