This title has got
Bon Jovi’s Someday I’ll be Saturday Night stuck in my head.
At
birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken.
At
six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician.
At
sixteen, she’s a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother.
At
nineteen, she’s the Beauty Queen of Boulevard Saint-Laurent.
At
twenty, she’s back in night school. And falling for an ex-convict.
And
it’s all being filmed by a documentary crew.
This summary is
so misleading. I was thinking it some The Truman Show like book, no it just her
dad famous and she was famous because of him. She was part of a documentary
when she was a kid and then a documentary crew show up after she became a
Beauty Queen and she doesn’t even agree to take part in the documentary. I
thought it would be like staging of her life.
What did I
actually think of this novel? Now that’s a question. It was interesting, especially
since my home country is deciding on Independence soon. The book was sort of
focus on Quebec wanting to be independent from the rest of Canada and set
around 1995 Vote. They obviously don’t
become independent.
The characters
were a troubled lot. Nouschka quit school because her twin brother did but
going back now. Everyone in this book has major issues, not as characters but as
people. Nouschka does grow as person. You do feel for the characters at certain
parts.
The thing I
liked about this book was writing style. O’Neil has this arty, poetic thing
going on. Also wanting to know what these half-crazed people were going to do
next and what was meant by the chapter headings. There were lines from the
actual chapter I think.
Overall, I gave
this book 4 out of 5 stars. I’m not really what to think of this book. I mean,
it definitely has plot and the characters are well developed but the book’s
most appealing aspect is the writing style. I would recommend it on that based
on the style, so if you like sort poetic writing then this book is for you.
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