Book Review: Twenties Girl

I didn’t believe in Santa Claus for very long as a child. I wasn’t as into cartoons as other kids. And I rarely watch fantasy-adventure movies.

I only like to watch/read/believe real people shows/movies/books/stories.

Maybe that’s why I was skeptical when I first saw Twenties Girl in the bookstore. I mean, a chick lit read that involves a ghost??!

But this book proved to be a pleasant surprise

Sophie Kinsella‘s Twenties Girl tells the story of a girl named Lara whose life isn’t going as well as she had hoped. Her boyfriend of three years broke up with her and refuses to talk about it. Her best friend and partner in a start-up headhunting firm goes AWOL leaving her with a business she has no idea how to run. As if her life wasn’t complicated enough, the ghost of her 105-year old aunt who had just passed away suddenly appears to her as the ghost’s twenty-three year old self. As her great-aunt Sadie pesters her day in and day out and makes her do outrageous things, Lara discovers  a great deal about herself and the aunt she never knew.

Twenties Girl was a delight to read. I found myself laughing out loud many times throughout my reading of this book. I loved that this book is not your usual Kinsella read in that I guess I would say the story has more depth than her other novels. The Shopaholic series was a lot of fun, yes,  but Twenties Girl, I would say, is chick lit that’s fun to read but also has a lot of heart. It reminds me a little of my favorite Cecelia Ahern book “If You Could See Me Now.”

So if you would like to take a breather from your more serious books, I’d definitely recommend this page-turner.

Rating: 4/5