My Oxford Year
Ratings25
Average rating3.9
I loved this book. Although a lot of the plot was predictable, it was beautiful. My only complaint is that Ella was too young for me to believe she was irreplaceable by the political campaign.
I loved the slow development of Ella and Jamie's relationship. You could feel their love grow.
This book was completely out of left field for me. While it does have a strong sense of place, and as any student of English might expect, getting to know Oxford University vicariously is just as exciting as one might think. The story doesn't stop here though, this isn't about an American on a Rhodes scholarship to England, this is about friendship and love. This is about life in all its beauty and tragedy. P. S. Julia Whelan's voice, voice actor extraordinaire, makes the plummy notes of Oxford English sound just as credible as those of an American from Ohio. Chapeau !
An enjoyable read, but I really don't like the ending. I'll just say that her vague past tense in the epilogue is either poorly written to appear straight past tense when it actually isn't, or that the end is shit. Otherwise an enjoyable read. Also, don't expect any bedroom scenes that go beyond the equivalent of (in a movie) the screen going from a make-out scene to the next morning a couple waking up together... I may have been mislead by a Cosmo review of the book. Overall, an enjoyable read, though.