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oLIViA ROCKS! oLIVIA JOULES AND THE OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION KICKED ASS. i LOVED IT IT, IT WAS FUN, FAST AND FASCINATING. iT HAS ACTION, ROMANCE, THRILL AND THE WHOLE OF HOLLYWOOD IN IT'S PALMS. hE HAS A CHANCE WITH TWO GORGOUS WHO MAY OR MAY NOT PLOTTIING AGAINST AMERICA AND ONE QUITE POSSIBLY MAY oSAMA BIN LADEN. tHERE'S TERRORIST ON THE LOOSE, TRADERS ON THE PROWL AND IMAGINATION ON THE SOAR. iT WAS GREAT.
Silly fun This book was TOO much fun! Not plausable at all, but just an outright silly, delectably daydreamy delight!
Olivia Joules is an enjoyable character, stumbling into adventure and half-heartedly trying distinguish reality from fantasy. What woman hasn't wanted to be involved in both the fashion world and international intrigue? This story could have been intolerable but Fielding handles the implausability with humor so that I found myself giggling and smiling through the whole book.
Most enjoyable!Disappointing to the max!!! This book was one of the biggest disappointments in my literary life! I adored both "Bridget Jones" books and liked "Cause Celeb" very much. I therefore was anxious to read Ms Fielding's latest. However, I soon realized that this book was very sub-par compared to the early works.
The characters are very shallow, and Olivia is downright annoying. I believe Bridget Jones would slap Olivia if the two ever met. Olivia's paranoia is more apropos of a mental patient than a comic heroine. She compares a man to Osama bin Laden, thinking that the man looks very much like bin Laden and that he is probably a terrorist, and then proceeds to make out with said bin Laden look-alike. How sick is that?
The book's desperate attempts at humor fall flat. The plot is just silly. That very silliness is also offensive, considering that the plot line involves several make-believe al-Qaeda attacks, which kill hundreds, yet is supposed to be funny. I am by no means easily offended or overly sensitive, but the author's repeated references to 9/11 are appalling. It is way too soon to causally pull the events of that tragic day into a comic novel. It is as if Ms. Fielding is trying to send a message to Americans along the lines of "Get over yourselves; a bad thing happened but it's time to forgive and forget. Al-Qaeda can be quite humorous".
The actual message that I got out of this book is more like "Be cautious[...]". That is the message that I intend to keep in mind!
