The Other Bridget by Rachael Johns Bridget Jones is named after a beloved literary character and thinks she too suffers the Bridget curse when it comes to love. But now things might finally be looking up - the hot Italian barista seems to be showing an interest in her! It'd be easier to enjoy this turn of events if Bridget didn't have to deal with a terrible (and noisy) neighbour and the busybodies at the seniors book club she's helping to run.
When I first arrived at the library to pick up this book and saw it on the reserved shelf, I knew immediately what the problem with it was going to be. 500 pages is excessive for women's lit/romance. That's not to say these books should never be that long... it's just that the page count here was detrimental to the story and its pacing. I get that this was a coy homage to the genre but cramming in everything was a bit too ambitious (basically, certain parts of the book suffered due to other unnecessary parts). When I got to the stroke, I actually still thought The Other Bridget was clever. When I got to the brain tumour, I rolled my eyes. When I got to the epilogue, I was angry because what little goodwill I had for the book evaporated. The annoying thing is, this book had excellent bones and Johns is an excellent writer. It could have been saved by an editor asking Johns to kill her darlings. Content warning: eating disorder, PTSD, cancer, transphobia
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AboutAlyce Caswell, when she isn't drinking her way through a giant pot of tea, can be found dabbling in multiple genres and writing forms. She has self-published several titles in her space opera family saga, which is divided into two series: The Galactic Pantheon and The Pantheon War. Her most recent book is The Shadow of the Gods. 
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