by Helen Fielding
Read: 2003-ish, October 2009
Rating: Even better.

I’ve fallen behind in my reviews, so this will have to be a bit quick.

Edge of Reason is even better than the original Bridget Jones. It’s longer, and more involved. It also has much more of her excellent friends.

And, yes, this is the one where she goes on vacation, is arrested, and winds up singing Madonna with the other prisoners in a WonderBra (hailed because she is the only one to know all the words).

Yes, Bridget’s months of misery could easily be undone by doing the one thing romance heroes and heroines never do: talk to each other! But ultimately it doesn’t bother me too much. Reading Bridget is like coming home.

She is the most neurotic, silly, person. She is TERRIBLE at everything she attempts to do. And I mean terrible–totally incompetent. Only not, as, obviously things begin to turn around.

What’s most rewarding is that Bridget matures toward the end. She questions the validity of her self help books (GASP!), and starts to make some real changes in her life. This is rewarded by the universe at large (a little too neatly).

I don’t care. Flaws aside, I still love it.