I Will Marry George Clooney (By Christmas)

by Tracy Bloom

[Leah]

I liked the idea of this novel, more than the novel itself. At first, I was interested and really into it (although I still can't believe Michelle tried to get George Clooney to marry her, it's the single most ridiculous thing I've probably ever heard in my life) but I sort of lost interest pretty rapidly because Michelle irritated the life out of me.

Ugh. All she did was whinge and moan, and whinge and moan, and I just couldn't put up with it, and I ended up skim-reading the last half of the novel. There's making bad choices, and then there's just Michelle. The narrative drove me half insane, what is it about these anti-social heroines that people find so endearing? I just pitied Michelle most of the time, sadly (and not in a good way, I'm afraid).

With a title like I Will Marry George Clooney (By Christmas) it should have been a light and frothy read, but sadly it was anything but for me.