*** out of ****
This book was a good break of routine. Cecilia Ahern is an Irish author, and she wrote the book P.S. I Love You, which is now a film. And of course, being Ahern is an Irish author, this book took place in cozy little Dublin, Ireland. Oh, and another place, called Here.
The story revolves around 2 main characters, Sandy Shortt, and Jack Ruttle. Sandy Shortte runs a missing persons agency, after she left the Garda. (The Garda is basically the police force of Ireland.) She has been obsessed with missing items and people ever since the girl who lived across from her in her childhood went missing. Jack Ruttle is a simple guy whose little brother, Donal, had gone missing a year ago. And he can't let that go, and is determined to find him. So their paths cross when Donal contacts Sandy to help find his brother. But things go awry as Sandy herself goes missing. (Kind of funny, the person who finds missing people goes missing) She ends up in a place called Here. It's the place where all missing people and things end up, and the people there have made it into their own little society. There, Sandy finds many of the missing people she had been looking for, and surprises everyone with a some stories from home. But it's not all happy endings there, when Sandy loses her watch, people start thinking there may be a way out of Here, and things get a little wild.
I'd rate A Place Called Here a ***out of ****, because it was a great book, and had a beautiful writing style, but it wasn't perfect. The plot was okay, but for me, Ahern should have extended more on the place Here, because it was much more interesting, and it had a lot of room for creativity. I recommend this book for readers who need a little mystery in their reading.
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