Blogger girl was a very fun read. I could not stop turning the pages and fell asleep every night with my Kindle in my hand. Meredith Schorr has successfully developed several characters in this novel, but the main character is not only likable, but very easy to identify with - she shares characteristics with every woman that I know, including myself.
Kim (better known as Kimmie by those who know her well enough to be allowed to call her that) spends most of the story as a legal secretary who successfully manages all of the lawyers around her. She finds herself in love with one and the two of them play cat and mouse through most of the book. Being a legal secretary pays the bills, but her love is writing and she has a successful "chick lit" blog page, where she posts honest reviews. Her blog is so successful that authors and publishers alike are clamoring for her opinions about manuscripts before they even go into publication.
Into the story, her nemesis, "Hannah", writes a novel that turns out to be an excellent read. Kim posts a review at first focusing on Hannah as a person rather than the book but after a conversation with her that happens unexpectedly and in perfect timing, Kim rewrites the review and proclaims Hannah to be a fine writer and the book a great read.
Because of the insight of the main squeeze in her life that she is jealous of Hannah among other things, she becomes enraged, takes a week off and goes home where she writes her own novel, long overdue from several unfinished projects from her younger years. The maturity and life experience that she has gained gives her the necessary tools to write her first great book. And, to regain the love from the man of interest who she successfully alienates, she imagines what the heroine in one of the novels that she reads would do to win back the man of her dreams and devises a plan to attempt to do so.
The only thing that I was a little bit surprised by in this novel was a lot of sexual references that go beyond the normal banter in most chick lit novels. It is most definitely not Sophie Kinsella-style naivety or innocence, but in its own way, the illicit references make it real and easy for many thirty-somethings to relate to. Not quite "Sex and the City" illicit, but on a scale of 1-10, 1 being one of the Shopaholic series and "Sex and the City" being a 10, this book falls at about a 5, regarding sexual inuendo.
A very fun read, I was sad to see the last page. I will miss Kimmie, but learned from her tenacity and will long remember this well-written, fun read.
A definite Four out of Five for me:)
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