I love Bridget Jones, so much so that I got off work early today just to read this novel I have been waiting for. The novel where I hoped Bridget and Mark finally worked out all the kinks and were having a baby, only to have Daniel come in and mess it all up. I mean come on... third times a charm right? I wanted to be shocked by this whole book so I read none of the clues or hints dropped leading up to the release. But I hated this book and I don't use that word lightly. The book starts off talking about people and things COMPLETELY unfamiliar to me and in a way that looks like a vomiting Twitter feed. Once characters are explained I'm left thinking - why the hell so much later in life? Why am I getting invested in these new characters when the old characters are wilting away with little care? We missed all the good stuff? Where it does pick it it stumbles into things unknown again and then the bomb drops... Fielding killed off one of the most beloved, ESSENTIAL characters of the novel. The death was heartfelt and meaningful I understand, but the other books felt me believing in love, no matter how difficult and meddled., but this book felt me thinking "Well I'll lose the love of my life, but I guess I'll have to move on." This book left my heart sad. I understand Bridget is more grown up and a different woman, but I agree with other reviewers, she lost her heart.
By Ryn
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