When I discovered the Holly's Inbox website, I had to force myself to stop reading or I wouldn't have got anything else done. I started reading the book on Saturday morning and pretty much didn't get anything done until I'd finished it on Sunday evening.
Written entirely in the form of emails to and from Holly, who has just started work as a receptionist at a large London bank. Her colleagues are generally awful (apart from Jennie who Holly went to school with ... at least to begin with) and it's only the emails from her friends Jason and Aisha that are getting her through. Until she starts a flirtation with James, one of the company's Vice Presidents. A flirtation that will eventually change everything. (Duh duh duhhhh!)
Holly's Inbox is an extremely easy read, but a totally compelling one. Very little really happens - the plot-based emails are interspersed with the kind of emails most women working in offices get: horoscopes, offers of cheap flights, money-laundering requests from Nigerian princes - but Holly's voice is so real that I was just as happy reading about her struggles to get her broken washing machine collected by the manufacturer as I was to read about her weekend in Spain with James.
Really, Holly's Inbox is the kind of book that gives chick lit a bad name, but it made me laugh and I struggled to put it down, so I just don't care. Great fun. (It was also written by a man, but I'm going to have to go and find out more about that...)
Rating: 3/5
Like this? Try Boy Meets Girl by Meg Cabot
