Story Description:
Baker Publishing
Group|June 1, 2011|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-8007-1964-7
It is spring break
of her senior year and Madison Van Buren is fed up. Stressed over Ivy League colleges, her
parents marital problems, and her boyfriend’s neglect, Madison gets in her car
and drives west. Meanwhile,
eighteen-year-old Anna Fisher wants to escape the so-called simple life – which
for her consists of caring for younger siblings, sewing, cooking and gardening –
and she’s well aware that her future will simply be more of the same with a man
she doesn’t love. Suddenly, worlds
collide when Madison and Anna meet in a small town, realize they look uncannily
similar, and decide the grass is definitely greener on the other side.
Readers will love
this funny and provocative tale of switching places from bestselling author
Melody Carlson. As they get a glimpse
into two very different worlds, they may find themselves happy to be just who
they are, where they are.
My Review:
Madison Van Buren’s
family is rich beyond rich. They live in
a Penthouse on the 26th floor of a beautiful building and Madison
has everything any girl could ever possibly want from designer clothing to cell
phones to computers to a Mini Cooper.
Madison lacks for nothing. She
even has her own money, wads of it and credit cards galore and lives a high and
mighty life. However, lately she’s is
just stressed to the max. Her parents
are divorced and both want her to attend different colleges. One wants her to go to Harvard and the other
one Yale but Madison wants to attend a smaller college. Her friends are getting on her nerves and
Vivian wants her to go to Florida with her family for spring break, her
boyfriend wants her to go to the Hampton’s, her mother wants her to go to Italy
with herself and her grandmother and her father wants her to visit him in
Boston. Feeling pressured she just hops
into her car, drives west and ends up in a small town.
Anna Fisher is
from a small Amish community and her days are nothing like Madison’s. Anna spends her days cooking, cleaning,
making pies, doing laundry and watching her younger siblings. Every day is the same to her and she wishes
she had some type of excitement in her life.
Plus her parents most likely want her to marry that Zook fellow that she
doesn’t like and has no plans to do so.
Her old boyfriend, Jacob had left their community and gone to New York
to get out of their settlement.
Madison and Anna
bump into each other in this small town and realize that they look eerily alike,
they could pass for twins. Together,
they come up with this plan to switch places for an entire week, each living
the other girls’ life. They went into
the washroom of the coffee shop they were in and changed clothing and their
adventure began. Anna headed for New
York on a bus to live in Madison’s penthouse and Madison headed for the small
Amish community.
They both
discovered things about themselves during their week away that changes both
their lives forever and just maybe they realize that each really is happy with
their lot in life.
Double Take was a quick and easy read
but very cute and very interesting. I
thoroughly enjoyed this story from the first page to the last.
I would like to
thank Graf-Martin for sending me a copy of this book.
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