A review by almondcookies
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

2.0

I'm starting to realise that I like reading chick lit as palette cleansers, but I end up disliking most of them, and this is no exception. Probably because the main characters are dislikable, (or even worse, are very dislikable, but the rest of the cast treats them like likeable snowflakes and their nemesis dislikes them for no reason).

Thankfully, Twenties girl is the former of the two; however, instead of one dislikable main character, there are two. Both Lara and Sadie both are selfish, childish, temperamental and very short sighted. Lara especially starts as selfish manipulative and lacking of any self reflection

Spoiler

she was in denial after her boyfriend broke up with her and kept insisting he was still in love with her. She literally stalked him, and when she saw something she didn't like, she forces Sadie into manipulating him to get back together with her

. Sadie too, starts off as self centred, not caring about anyone except her own self and doesn't show an interest in anyone else's life until she realises she needs to before Lara's willing to help her out. I have to say, although I barely managed to get there, towards the end it was nice to see the two ladies looking out for each other and trying to help one another.... Even if it was out of negative reasons like guilt/revenge.

Both characters develop throughout the story, and eventually learn how to think about someone other than themselves (Yay character development!), but this happens so slowly and well past half way into the book (Boo unnecessarily long books for the sake of being long!) that I was very tempted to dnf several times.

tl;dr I learn more about why I hate dislikable characters.