A review by silkcaramel
A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody

3.0

“A small shift in perspective and everything falls into place”


This was a nice contemporary YA with a little magic touch that could very well be a Disney Channel movie, and I would watch it and enjoy it (and maybe like it a little bit more than I did the book), because it had this teen movie vibe. It was a nice little book to read in-between high fantasy or books that leave you with this big hangover (like I just had with "A Torch Against The Night"), because it's funny and cute. It wasn't fantastic, but it was short and enjoyable, although very predictable. Within the first few chapters, I already knew exactly what would happen and how the book would end. The characters were a little flat and underdeveloped and only the main protagonist had this major character development through the novel, and it was filled of this annoying high-school YA tropes, and I failed to connect with some of the situations - especially the 'guide to understand men' scene, that really pissed me off, especially after reading a feminist AF book like "Beauty Queens". That didn't stopped me from enjoying the novel and the story for what it is, and if you're looking for a simple, easy and beachy-like read, this book is definitely the right choice.