BOOK DESCRIPTION:
She comes from a rich family in Vancouver and enjoys horse back riding, he lives on the wrong side of town and calls boxing his hobby. Two very different teenagers changing their bodies accidentally and have to live the life of the other. The funniest body switch comedy you will read.
MY REVIEW:
This is one of those love-it/hate-it books. It’s a spin-off of Trading Places meets Freaky Friday.
Nicole and Frank are the stereotypical troupe of rich girl meets boy from the wrong side of the tracks. However, this isn’t a romance. Instead it’s two teenagers who end up swapping bodies through a freaky science experiment. Due to the writing / formatting style of the editor / author, it was hard to know who was talking and the story became confusing at times.
Even though the characters were very one dimensional, over half way through the book I began to feel for them. Nicole’s plight being stuck in Frank’s life while Frank got to experience a world only seen from afar. Why would Frank want to go back? It wasn’t hard to figure out the twist.
There were several times I wanted to DNF it, but like a bad train wreck, I had to see what happened. And I’m glad I stuck it out as I liked the ending. It fit perfectly and was well done.
And this is why I hated the book and almost DNF’d it:
Yeah. – You’re so pretty Nicole.
– I know.
– I’m proud of you. I smile at her.
– I love you.
– Love you too.
Would I recommend the story? If you can handle all the wrong punctuation for dialogue, which is what really killed the story for me, then yeah, try it. You’ll probably like it. I give it 3 stars.
