Hello and welcome to my blog for my stop on the tour for The Eternal Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch. It is a pleasure to welcome you here! Please do click around and have a look at my other posts. I love contemporary YA and don't feel like I've read one in ages, so I was eager to sign up to this blog tour and to read the book!
The main character of the book is James Spencer, and he is in his last year at 6th form so he's already eighteen. His dad calls him James but everyone else calls him Spence. He has a car, an MG Midget which I've got major envy for, and on this particular Friday just before exam leave, he wakes up in his car.
It is the year anniversary of his mum's death and he and his dad haven't been getting on very well, so James has chosen to sleep in his car to stay out of his dad's way. He is woken up by a car hitting his. A small red Micra, driven by Clara Hart. They have a bit of an altercation about it and then James goes into school and sits with his friends Anthony and Worm. They have forgotten the significance of the day and are their usual selves - mocking girls, catcalling, and giving all the girls ratings out of five. They are also planning a party for that evening. James doesn't really want to go, but he does. He and Anthony pick up alcohol and get ready.
At the party Worm strips naked and jumps into the pool. James ends up asleep. A girl called Mia gets incredibly drunk. Clara's friend Genni gets off with a guy called Jay and Clara ends up upstairs with Anthony. James rescues her, covering up her naked body, but she's drunk and upset and runs out of the house. She is then killed by a car coming past. The party ends with everyone at the police station giving a statement about what happened. James is obviously distraught and ends up asleep in his own bed, taken home by his dad.
But then he wakes up again in his car, and Clara is again close by in her red car. James is obviously confused, and moreso when the day repeats itself. Can he save Clara this time, though?
Through more than a week of Fridays James tries and tries again to save Clara, to make a better hash of the day than he did the first time around. He's sure there must be some kind of key - but what is it?
I loved the book, I liked James a lot and loved the setting he found himself in. I liked the mystery of how he was going to get out of the mess he was in and I liked the ending. In all I'm giving this four out of five.
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