Bridget's story doesn't just pick up where it last left off; instead, Mad About the Boy starts with just about as much time having passed in Bridget's world as in ours. She's no longer a 30-something hot mess navigating life as a single lady. Now, she's a 51-year-old hot mess, once again looking for love but this time with two kids in tow.
Now, my last few posts have been pretty verbose, so I'm just going to sum this one up as succinctly and bluntly as possible.
Our beloved 30-something Bridget was generally a ridiculous human being in the most lovably flawed way. She was constantly trying to figure out how to succeed at work and how to succeed with relationships—the pressures to be your age, as a real grownup, though it's just not happening for you so you keep on drinking the cheap wine of your youth. She was entertaining and mostly relatable.
Now the 50-something Bridget has the money and luxuries of someone who has matured personally and professionally over the past 15 years...but she is still as laughably immature, only now it's not very funny. Now, Bridget just needs a good kick in the pants and be told to GROW UP, because she's not living or dealing the way someone with her responsibility should be. It's like she's holding on to the poor decisions of her youth when she should really know better. And with the annoyingly excessive references to Twitter and other pieces of "young and modern" technology and society, everything about this book just feels like it was trying too hard to do something that didn't need to be done in the first place. Like really, this is how you revive your most beloved character, Fielding??
I will leave you with my own modified haiku:
Like Sex and the City 2
I find this book
Wholly unnecessary.
2 comments:
I agree wholeheartedly! I did not like this at all. Bridget basically not working at all, but needing a full-time nanny and able to lose 30 lbs in like two weeks, and then wearing thigh-high boots? Just... No. Grow up.
Yes, that was one of the more annoying parts! She's not even a productive member of society anymore; she's laughably a "screenwriter" and doesn't even consider that, her ONLY professional pursuit, worthy of actual time and effort because she spends more energy worrying about "toy boy." Also annoying: the phrase "toy boy", idiot enabling friends, and, again, the overuse of Twitter updates. Bah, it was just all terrible.
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