Holly's Inbox - Holly Denham

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Title: Holly's Inbox
Author: Holly Denham
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 710
Date read: October, 2010

Meet Holly Denham. It's her first day as a receptionist at a London investment bank and inexperienced Holly is struggling. How's a working girl supposed to have a love life with a demanding job, crazy friends, a dysfunctional family, and gossipy colleagues? Not to mention that Holly's been keeping a secret from everyone - and the past is about to catch up with her.

An affair with a sexy VP heats things up at the office, but when Holly's first flame (who, she thinks, left her in the lurch) gets a job at the same company, complications abound and Holly's inbox becomes a daily source of drama, laughter and scandal.

I presume this is fiction? Although it did confuse me that the author and the main character's names were the same, but as far as I could gather, the emails (originally found at www.hollysinbox.com) are all fictional.

Quite entertaining, and a very quick read (it may be 700+ pages, but there's so little writing on each, that it reads like a 2-300 page book). It was a bit too Bridget Jones'ish in places for my tastes (I'm glad Holly didn't make quite as many bad decisions though - her judgement was definitely much better thankfully), and I had a hard time relating to many of the characters, which obviously brought the rating down some (also, do people IRL really get as bitchy as Jennie? I've certainly never met any - but that may just be luck!). On the other hand, I loved the writing style, found myself laughing out loud in several places, and had a hard time putting it down, when it was time to head off to bed last night.