Can You Keep A Secret?
Ratings80
Average rating3.6
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Ratings80
Average rating3.6
Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets.
Secrets from her mother:
1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur.
...From her boyfriend:
2. I'm a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks.
3. I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.
...From her colleagues:
4. When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day)
5. It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.
...Secrets she wouldn't share with anyone in the world:
6. My G string is hurting me.
7. I faked my Maths GCSE grade on my CV.
8. I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is...
...until she spills them all to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger...
Reviews with the most likes.
I love Sophie Kinsella. I've read three of her novels now and they never fail to make me laugh, genuinely, out loud. This one was incredible well done. It was a truly non-formulaic chick lit novel. I fully recommend if you want a by the pool read that will add a few years to your life with laughter
I wanted to find a light book to read at work in downtime, one I wouldn't have to pay too much attention to or think about too much. I will say by the time I was almost finished this book I was about to give up. some parts of it were genuinely funny. At times I really liked the main character and thought she was hilarious.
But...
I honestly wanted to strangle pretty much every character. Emma was funny sometimes but insecure, naive, immature, and just completely stupid at times. Her roomates (mainly Jemima) made me want to rip the book apart (I guess it's good that I had it on Kindle and not paper). I wanted to like Jack but he was basically a cardboard cutout. No substance. Nothing. He literally could have been a cardboard cutout that Emma carried around everywhere, and I might have found the story more interesting.
I am sorry I didn't enjoy this book. I wanted to like it. But it was like Bridget Jones with even more crazy drama and less enjoyable characters.
