It had been a long time since I last read Jojo Moyes and reading this book reminded me why I had enjoyed her Me Before You all those years ago. Her writing is comforting, familiar in a way that makes you want to keep going. Someone Else’s Shoes is not too bad of a book because I’ve always liked stories with women as main characters. But I did feel that something was missing from the story and that feeling lasted until I finished the book.

Nisha and Samantha are very different women whose lives goes on as normal until their gym bags gets exchanged. Samantha finds an expensive shoe and prada jacket inside her bag instead of her usual worn black shoes and is too pressed for time to return it immediately. Their lives turn upside down right from that point. Nisha, although isn’t born rich has been married to a millionaire and finds herself cut off from her husband all of a sudden. Her husband has denied her access even to her clothes and all she has now is the swapped gym bag that doesn’t even contain her belongings.

Samantha, on the other hand has a depressed husband and a horrible boss. Finding those shoes amps up her confidence and she sees a change in her personality and as much as she tries to return it, there’s always an obstacle that stops her. We see these two women try to bring their lives under control only to realise that they’ve been doing it wrong all this while.

The plot is quite interesting, yes but after a while it got too boring for me. The story dragged and I couldn’t wait to be done with it. The characters are too simple, too cliched and very predictable. I did, however enjoy Moyes’s writing but it wasn’t enough. But there’s a good chance that you may enjoy it seeing it has mixed reviews.

M