The More You Read

I had read Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella and had enjoyed it.  I can’t quite say the same thing for Twenties Girl the newest book out by this author.  It is a ghost story of sorts and I have this problem where I like even my fiction to be believable…and this was not.

In Twenties Girl Lara is a twenty something woman who is having problems in her love life and her professional life.  She goes to a funeral for her 105-year-old great aunt Sadie, who she had only ever met once, and while at the funeral a younger version of Sadie appears to her and asks her to stop the funeral as she does not have a certain necklace on.  Lara does stop the funeral by saying she thinks that her great aunt has been murdered…by the nursing home staff…and an investigation follows buying her time to find the missing necklace.

Lara proceeds to try to find Sadie’s necklace with the help of Sadie who is able to transport herself wherever she wants to go.  Other people such as Lara’s ex-boyfriend can be influenced by Sadie talking to them but no one can hear her or see her the way Lara can.  Sadie helps Lara with her business, plays matchmaker, and together they discover the secret behind the missing necklace and it’s importance.

I know that this should have been a fun, enjoyable read, yet I just never really got into it.  I promised myself that I would read a book through if I was going to write about it, but if that had not been the case I would never have finished it.  The characters were not believable and the story just never developed into anything great.  I had read on some other book sites that this was a good summer read but I enjoyed other books Sophie Kinsella had written a lot more.

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Chick Lit, Fiction, Sophie Kinsella