Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
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Average rating3.7
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? Is sleeping with someone after 2 dates and 6 weeks of texting the same as getting married after 2 meetings and 6 months of letter writing in Jane Austen's day? Pondering these, and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of single-motherhood, tweeting, texting and redisovering her sexuality in what SOME people rudely and outdatedly call 'middle age'. The long-awaited return of a much-loved character, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, witty, wise and bloody hilarious.
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I think I set myself up for a bit of a disappointment with this one. I LOVED the first two BJ books, they were some of the only books I re-read every now and then, so I expected a lot from Mad About the Boy.
I don't think I can ever really forgive Helen Fielding for killing off Mark Darcy . I don't think it was necessary. However, it was fun getting to know Bridget as a mother and ‘cougar' in her fifties. In some ways she was the old Bridget, but I don't think the book reads like the ‘old Fielding.' Some parts were just overly sentimental (esp bit at the end about the Owl) and the romance at the end of the book seemed a bit rushed (although I knew where it was going from the beginning)
Overall, I really enjoyed it - It made me laugh out loud a couple of times - but it won't be placed on the pedestal with BJ 1 and 2.
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4 primary booksBridget Jones is a 6-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1970 with contributions by Helen Fielding, Jan Karłowski, and Katarzyna Karłowska.
