A review by ridgewaygirl
Life Skills by Katie Fforde

2.0

Katie Fforde can write chick-lit beautifully; light, fluffy novels with humor and romance and quirky, interesting characters. It's a pity that with Life Skills she chose not to. This book is a disorganized mess, beginning with the premise that an organized career woman could, in chucking her job and her boyfriend, become instantly feckless and dithery and that this is the preferable state; helpless and in need of rescue. Then there's the plot, in which begins as one thing and two-thirds of the way through becomes something quite different. The romantic interest shows up now and again, but isn't a part of the heroine's life until the end of the book; they never get to know each other and so it's only clear that they'll ride off into the sunset together because the genre demands it. Life Skills reads like a rough first draft that Fforde lost interest in partway through and then finished writing without rereading the first half. There are some interesting ideas here, and every so often a well-turned phrase, but on the whole I would suggest choosing a different book.