The preview paragraph for the book, Change Places With Me tantalized me with a nice, psychological novel about a girl who suddenly wakes up as a new person. The plot surprises me at the end of part one, titled "Forget-Me-Not," but I was still satisfied with the conclusion. Fresh from reading it a couple hours ago, I have strong, visceral feelings about the book. This usually happens when I read a book like this, that touches on the psychological aspect of humans. The same went with The Catcher in the Rye. A small part of me is scared about the future the book depicts, where memories can be manipulated, but I still enjoyed reading about the main character, Rose's conflict with her existence.
I rate this book with five stars, mostly for the story. I loved how the author repeated many seemingly ordinary things that the main character noticed in part one and gave a little more significance to it. I also liked how she changed the noun with which she referred to the main character, depending on the personality, or "skin" she was wearing, or not wearing.
This is a story about how a girl struggles through unhappiness after her father's death, undergoing an extreme treatment for the sake of moving on. The Rose persona we meet first is the happy girl Clara, her original personality, wanted to be. She wanted to "change places" with a random girl she met on the street, who she felt was really happy with her life, and as Rose, she began changing her appearance to match that girl's. I appreciate the allusions to the Snow White tale, which she makes often as Clara, mentioning that she hid herself behind a glass case, and that she herself and her life resembled that of Snow White.
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