Jubilee Jenkins is 27 years old and she's allergic to people. She can't be touched or held by a person. It's a rare allergy and it makes her life enormously difficult and leads to many humiliating encounters. After high school, she refused to leave the house. It has been nine years since. Is this all there is to her life? All there will ever be?
A book for teens and older adults.
I loved this book, it was perfect- the romance was there but there was a unique story developed around it with an endearing character right in the centre of it. While reading, I was reminded of other favourites of mine: Penelope (the film- how she's kept hidden away) and Matilda by Roald Dahl (both Jubilee and Matilda had a shared love of reading.) The best seller, Me Before You by Joyo Moyes also came to mind: Louisa Clark had a similar small world perspective as Jubilee and, Will Traynor was forced to live it. The Memory of Flora Banks was another one: both are extraordinary stories- and really, the extraordinary ones are the best kind. Finally, Under Rose-Tainted Skies (the first book I read on agoraphobia).
This is a book you'll stay up late to finish, you'll wish to read it in one sitting but you'll also not want it to end. I'll definitely be reading more of Colleen Oakley's books.
A book for teens and older adults.
I loved this book, it was perfect- the romance was there but there was a unique story developed around it with an endearing character right in the centre of it. While reading, I was reminded of other favourites of mine: Penelope (the film- how she's kept hidden away) and Matilda by Roald Dahl (both Jubilee and Matilda had a shared love of reading.) The best seller, Me Before You by Joyo Moyes also came to mind: Louisa Clark had a similar small world perspective as Jubilee and, Will Traynor was forced to live it. The Memory of Flora Banks was another one: both are extraordinary stories- and really, the extraordinary ones are the best kind. Finally, Under Rose-Tainted Skies (the first book I read on agoraphobia).
This is a book you'll stay up late to finish, you'll wish to read it in one sitting but you'll also not want it to end. I'll definitely be reading more of Colleen Oakley's books.