Author: Holly Denham
Genre: chick-lit, adult
Published: 2007
Source: Library
Genre: chick-lit, adult
Published: 2007
Source: Library
Summary: Holly is just beginning as a receptionist at a bustling and huge bank. She's totally lost and in over her head, but things start looking up when she makes friends with some of her coworkers, finds old friends there, and even starts dating a handsome VP. Mixed in with e-mails with all of them are messages with her crazy family and best friends, a gay man and a... "promiscuous" girl. Soon, though, things begin falling apart for Holly at her new job, when she gets dumped, gets back-stabbed, and an old flame joins the company, revealing her secret past and heartbreaks.
My Thoughts: I thought this book was slow to start. In fact, about 200 pages in, I set it aside to read another book that needed to be returned. Then, I picked it back up after I finished the other book, and it got SO good. At first, it was just back and forth e-mails without much going on, then about halfway through, it really picked up! Lots of stuff went down and I was dying to know what would happen. Catty friends, crazy fun friends, handsome backstabbers, secret pasts... it had it all!
The book is around 700 pages, BUUUUT, it's all written in e-mail form so it's quite a quick read. A lot of the e-mails are really short, and I wish some of them had actually been a bit longer, but overall, the book flies by. Holly and her friends were really likable and entertaining, while the couple of backstabbers were completely dreadful and made me SO angry. I think this book portrayed a variety of different relationships realistically, like with her grandmother and parents, and I liked that aspect a lot.
Overall, fun brit chick-lit! I really wanted to get my hands on the sequel, so when I went to my job at the library on Thursday, I searched the catalog and they didn't have it. :( Boooo. Guess I'll have to wait!
My Rating: 4/5
I like books that are in email form. Sounds good.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds SO cute.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a bit to get into this book too. It was hard for me to get used to the email form but once I got used to it I loved it! Great review!
ReplyDeleteI saw this book at B&N, and I skimmed through a couple of pages, not really thinking it was much of a good read because of the email format. Nowadays, emails are practically text messages. Don't you think you lose a lot in emails, especially in a novel?
ReplyDeleteI don't know.
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I liked this one too. I read it last year and was a bit overwhelmed at its size, but it's definitely a quick read. My library doesn't have the second book yet either! Boo! :(
ReplyDeleteInteresting -- I've never read a book in email form :)
ReplyDeleteI've had this book on my TBR shelf a while overwhlemed by its size - you inspire me to move it on up my list....maybe a good Beach read this summer! It'll be here before we know it:)
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