Twenties Girl

This was a fun book – a quick read, amusing story, and likeable main characters. Lara and Sadie are an odd pairing – Lara’s a 27-year-old living woman, and Sadie is the 23-year-old ghost of Lara’s just deceased great aunt. But they have great chemistry and lots of fun.

This book is no great work of literature; it’s chick lit. But that’s the fun of it. Sophie Kinsella is also the author of the Shopaholic books, so she knows how to do chick lit and does it well. The addition of the ghost Sadie just makes it that much more interesting. And I like the details about ghosthood that Kinsella creates. For instance, Sadie died at the age of 105, but her ghost is 23 because, aren’t we all 23 on the inside no matter how old we grow to be? And she doesn’t wear the outfit she died in; she wears whatever she imagines. And although Lara is the only person who can see and hold a conversation with Sadie, other people can sort of hear Sadie if she screams in their ears – they think they are hearing a voice inside their heads. It’s quite amusing the way she toys with some of the people in Lara’s life (particularly the man Lara thinks she loves).

Twenties Girl was a very quick read – about two days. I’ve never read any of the Shopaholic books, but now I may have to check one or two out.