Customer Rating: Summary: Good idea, but didn't deliver.... Comment: I loved the idea for this story but felt it was too drawn out and predicatable. You work out very early on what is going to happen but where the actual story could have ended in about 10 pages it is dragged out with annoying characters. The father who talks about countdown and boring stuff for pages on end (I skipped though most of the book to get to the actual story) and the bickering 'best' friends didn't add any value to the book. I also found it very difficult to come to terms with the main character who had lost on unborn child, then going on a mission to find the man of her dreams. Having just had a baby myself I found the subject far too sensitive to include in a book of this nature. Customer Rating: Summary: Thanks for nothing! Comment: I cannot believe that I wasted two days reading this book - it is absolute rubbish. (In fact I only finished reading it as I was stuck at an airport for half a day). Completely farcical storyline and totally unbelieveable. My first and last foray into the works of Cecelia Ahern. Customer Rating: Summary: Brilliant read Comment: This was my first C Ahearn novel and I will now be reading all the others - I thought her technique was good, her characters engaging and her ideas interesting. The heroine's miscarriage was particularly moving and rang true and her relationship with her father was also touching. I couldn't put it down. Customer Rating: Summary: Generally a good book... but Comment: I have some mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I finished it in 2 days, so there must be something good about it. On the other hand, there were pages I just skipped through, because it really didn't interest me.
In the story, Joyce Conway gets the memories , tastes and feelings of her probable (we never truely find this out) blood donor. But I find it terribly confusing to imaging what will happen after the ending. An open ending is to me a terrror anyway, but here it feels like the writer just didn't truely know how to continue the story, because it's to complicated. It really felt that the end was missing.
But I have to say, while reading I constantly wanted to know how it would continue, so it is a catching story. And at times I was laughing loudly. Especially the father figure is a nice character, that often puts a smile on your face.
I think if you can read this as a superficial story, to spend your time (for instance while waiting at the airport like I did), it's a good book. If you like to think more in depth about the story, you'll come up with questions that remain unanswered. Most noticably, how can this story continue, seeing you have two people together where one is completely aware of the feelings of the other. Can a person live with this breach of his privacy?
Customer Rating: Summary: Not as good as her previous books Comment: Cecelia Ahern is a really engaging author who's books are very hard to put down once you have started however I found 'Thank You for the Memories' not to be as engaging as her other books.
It was a pleasant enough read and the information about the buildings was very interesting. Even the basis of the plot was very interesting. Can you really recieve someone elses memories via a blood transfusion? It created many a discussion with my flat mates.
However this book just did not draw me in like her previous books. I'm only giving it two stars because I thought the ended was very romantic and engaging. I would recommend anyone to read this but do not think of it as light hearted as her other books
