Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Maybe it's me. Maybe because Bridget and I are about the same age, I could identify with her in my 30s and got a lot of giggles watching her fumble through life. But fumbling through life in your 50s, still obsessing about weight and men and cigarettes? Not so funny. The diary entries are self-indulgent and paranoid and annoying. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Mark is dead. Brige is a widow with two young kids and a much younger lover. And I honestly wonder if, prior to writing this book, Ms. Fielding's people could not secure Colin Firth to play Mark in any future film adaptation and thus she changed the story line. Because, why on EARTH would you kill off Mark? A really wonderful book would have taken up where the last one left off, telling the story of Brige's wedding and marriage to Mark and the arrival of a Darcy heir. But jumping - what, 12? 14? - years into the future and finding the exact some woman with no insight, no maturity and no self-respect was really disappointing. I got through about 4 chapters before contacting Amazon for a refund on my kindle purchase. It was THAT bad. (Also, I dont' why I was able to purchase this book prior to publication date, but I was....)