Stayed up all night to read the book
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For any girl who's ever been single, this book offers empathy, humour, sarcasm, anger, insecurity, uncertainty and friendship. What the author manages in this book, isnt amazing writing skills, but quite simply you're made to feel like Victoria is a close friend. I was so engaged in the book and it's characters I started the book mid afternoon and stayed up all night until it was finished. Now when I lend it out to friends, I warn them to get a good night's sleep before they read it! An excellent read!
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Total Relationships Disaster
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Another man, another haircut. It's funny how we always do the same things, every single time, when we break up with people. I'm not stupid, I know there's a pattern. I only have to look at my photo albums..' This is a fabulous book about the common story of a girl who becomes single again. Jessica Adams has put a clever touch to the story which leaves you comforted by the idea that you're not the only one and there's someone who seems to be handling it much worse. Thirtyish Victoria 'Total Relationships Disaster' Shepworth has been dumped by Dan and tries to cope with singlehood. She gets a computer from her father and with a little (read: a lot of) help from her upstairs neighbour manages to log on to the Internet, where a whole new world unfolds itself. She meets Pierre in a chatroom and discovers a new meaning to flirting. Meanwhile her two lesbian friends try to let her give up men and join their Woman Circle. Will Victoria be tempted and lose the fantasy of a dream wedding? Pick up this book and find out! Jessica Adams was an astrologist before she took up writing fiction, but I think she couldn't have made a better choice. Her other novels 'Tom Dick and Debbie Harry' and the recently published 'I'm a Believer' are also really worth reading!
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Brilliant, funny, couldn't put it down!
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If you are single and had 'total b****y relationships disasters' then this is the book for you. Hilarious recognition of the typical relationships women seem to fall into...and out of! (Are men really the same across the globe?)
The end seems to have been left open...I will be very disappointed if there isn't a sequel.
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But the net is speedier than this!!
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It started well. Then I got to the middle and started to wonder why our heroine didn't just top herself as she was sooooo depressed and considered herself sooooooo useless! Like others, I was led to believe that Victoria would be an IT Bridget Jones but was sorely disappointed. The best bits were the 'chats' between Victoria and Pierre... and her metaphor for what love really is.
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But the net is speedier than this!!
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It started well. Then I got to the middle and started to wonder why our heroine didn't just top herself as she was sooooo depressed and considered herself sooooooo useless! Like others, I was led to believe that Victoria would be an IT Bridget Jones but was sorely disappointed. The best bits were the 'chats' between Victoria and Pierre... and her metaphor for what love really is.
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