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Title: Olivia
Joules and the overactive imagination
Author: Helen Fielding
Genre: humor/chick-lit
Rating: 
Bridget
Jones meets James Bond…result: Olivia Joules (that’s "J.O.U.L.E.S. the
unit of kinetic energy"), another character of Helen Fielding’s fantastic
mind. In the mood for an easy read and hilarious story? Pick up this book and
you’ll have a great couple of days.
Olivia
is a serious (well, actually not too serious) journalist. When she gets the
opportunity to go to Los Angeles for a story (easy job in the sun) on a new
facial crème in a super deluxe hotel she doesn’t say no. Who would, right?
But those two days in sunny USA is the beginning of a strange journey. When, at
the launch of the facial crème, she first lays eyes on an Osama bin Laden
look-a-like (or is it him really?), she thinks she has discovered an al-Quaeda
plot. Convinced she has to follow her gut and should take this opportunity to
prove herself as a “real” journalist, she dives right in the adventure that
will take her from LA to Miami to London to Egypt to the Sudan. You will love
her way of thinking and you will root for her all the way; does she get her
story she has been waiting for? Will she uncover the al-Quaeda plot? Will she be
a good help to the MI6? Or…is it all just Olivia’s overactive imagination?
After
this positive review I feel the need to say that this is really not a Bridget
follow up. For me this book is not as good as the first Bridget Jones book. The
characters are a little more flat and two-dimensional and some of the events,
especially at the end and conclusion went a bit too far and were a bit too much
for me. But, don’t let this hold you back picking up the book; great
comic talent as we're used to from Helen Fielding. Her style and choice of words
will surely generate some laugh-out-loud moments.
Just
don’t expect Bridget!
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If you liked this
book, you should try:
Bridget
Jones's diary
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