The Boy I Loved Before, by Jenny Colgan
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This is a fairly typical chick-lit sort of novel, which is not a bad thing.
There’s a British girl who has a curvy-sort-of figure, and she’s
dissatisfied with her love life and career. Sound familiar? Okay, what
if that girl somehow manages to enter into another realm, where she
and her parents are somehow younger, but everyone else has
stayed the same? What if her parents are completely oblivious to
what’s going on, and insist that she goes to school and obey
curfew? And what if this girl takes up with the younger brother of
that gorgeous boy she knew in high school, you know, “the one who
got away”?
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That is the premise of The Boy I Loved Before, a very clever, fun
story with few flaws. True, it’s a little hard to understand how the
main character Flora manages to become younger and her parents
have forgotten but she and her friends haven’t, etc. etc., but if you
can get past that sticky point, then you’ve got a fun novel which will
appeal to high school age on up. If you’re looking for a good chick
lit book with an extremely interesting twist, then look no further, The
Boy I Loved Before is for you!
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