The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

Unfortunately, The Husband’s Secret is one of those books that make it to the top 10 and therefore it’s automatically assumed that it’s an excellent read... when it’s not. 

It took me a long time to finish this book; reading a chapter or two then putting it down and going back a day or so later. Not a good sign !

The premise of the book is clever -a wife accidentally finds a letter from her husband that is to be opened only upon his death - but the story meanders and rambles on and on. Since the husband is still alive, the wife vacillates on whether to read the letter and she does this over a ridiculous number of pages. ‘Enough already’, the lengthy build up is unnecessary - it is a given that she will read the letter. You just find yourself wishing it was sooner, rather than later.

Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding

Sunday 17^th November 2013

Number of times almost gave up reading the book 3, number of times questioned why Helen Fielding thought it was necessary to write this book 50, déjà vus’ from Bridget Jones Diary 3680, time lost reading this book 600 minutes, chances of Bridget Jones surviving another sequel 0. 

 

The best thing about this book is that poor Mark Darcy is dead. 

He would have been horrified to see that Bridget had morphed into a cross between Edina Monsoon (Absolutely Fabulous) and Katie Price (after Peter Andre). 

He probably would have divorced her within 5 years and ran off to parts unknown with the kids; while Bridget spends her time gaining and losing weight, drinking and smoking too much and too little, dating and being dumped by toy boys. Not to mention, she would be constantly stalking Mark and the kids through twitter and other forms of social media.