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“Oona was still learning, everytime she leaped no matter the year someone important would be absent from life.”

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

October 11, 2025 by Malin Leave a Comment

Buzzword Title Challenge 25: Alliteration Buzzword Cover Challenge 25: Eyes CBR17 Bingo: O (A book title that starts with O) Official plot summary (because I read this back in July): Just because life may be out of order, doesn’t mean it’s broken. It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight, she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: buzzwords cover, buzzwords title, cbr17, cbr17bingo, contemporary fiction, family, grief, magical realism, Malin, margarita montimore, Margerita Montimore

Malin's CBR17 Review No:59 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: buzzwords cover, buzzwords title, cbr17, cbr17bingo, contemporary fiction, family, grief, magical realism, Malin, margarita montimore, Margerita Montimore ·
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When one year doesn’t follow the next

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

March 13, 2020 by jomidi 1 Comment

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore has a fascinating premise.  What would your life be like, if every New Years at midnight you were in a new year of your life, but not the next year.  Oona leaps every year at midnight on New Year’s and travels to another year in her life, sometimes she travels forward and sometimes she travels backward.  Each leap is marked in the book with the year, her age that year, and how old she really is.  So at […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction Tagged With: Fiction, margarita montimore, oona out of order

jomidi's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction · Tags: Fiction, margarita montimore, oona out of order ·
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