The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding | Audible Audiobook

Series: Bridget Jones #2

Publication: 2013 by Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Source: Purchased

Goodreads Summary: The Wilderness Years are over! But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever.

Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, which takes her from the cappuccino queues of Notting Hill to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of ...

Bridget is back. V.g.
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Check out my review of the first book here!

My Thoughts:

I think it may be blasphemous but I might even like the events in this one better than the first one. You know how sometimes you finish a book and think, Well that was all right and then weeks/months later decide that you do actually love it and bump up the stars? That's what has happened to me with this series so far. Bridget is such a bumbling, funny character. So many things she says and does are so out of this world that it's hard to imagine someone has actually done the same thing. But that I think it may be blasphemous but I might even like the events in this one better than the first one. You know how sometimes you finish a book and think, Well that was all right and then weeks/months later decide that you do actually love it and bump up the stars? That's what has happened to me with this series so far. Bridget is such a bumbling, funny character. So many things she says and does are so out of this world that it's hard to imagine someone has actually done the same thing. But that's the charm of the series. They're farfetched. They're ridiculous. They're bizarre in some instances. But they're fun, easy-to-read books that worm their way into your heart. Bridget frustrated me in this sequel just as she did in the first book. When will she ever learn that it's better to just say how you feel and what you want instead of listening to all of her self-help books and her mindless friends? Probably never because this is Bridget Jones we're talking about. The plot ran pretty quickly for me in this installment while I felt it ran a little slowly in the first book. I particularly loved the Colin Firth interview and the Christmas cards incidents that Bridget went through. I know that at the time the book was written that the tongue-in-cheek irony of Bridget interviewing Colin Firth was the play on Mr. Darcy. However, years later, it's even more funny since Colin Firth played Mark Darcy in the film. The interview was so perfect, so awkward, so hilarious--I loved it! And the Christmas cards...when will Bridget ever learn to stop writing when she's had too many to drink? Probably never once again because it's Bridget Jones. It's nice to know how "Dear, dear" people become to her when she's had one too many. It definitely takes a certain sense of humor to truly appreciate or even like this series but I definitely enjoy listening to them. I've loved Imogen Church's reading of this series and am disappointed there is a different narrator for the last book. But, as Bridget would put it, Hurrah! Onto the next one! Likes: Bridget's bumbling through life. The Colin Firth interview. The Christmas cards incident. The smell under the stairs incident. The hole in wall of flat incident. Pretty much everything. Dislikes: The Thailand thing was just too much for me personally. I thought it was pretty boring and highly farfetched. Overall: Recommend? Yes! Reading the Next One? Yes!