what I’m reading: it’s not me, it’s you by mhairi mcfarlane.

This is the second book that I’ve read written by this author. I liked this book, but not as much as the other book by this author that I read. This book took me a while to get into but once I did, I had found to be a fun and pleasant read.

There’s a lot going on in this book:
• Delia Moss has proposed to her boyfriend Paul, who has grudgingly accepted. They go to celebrate and we find out Paul’s been having an affair because he texts his girlfriend, only the text doesn’t go to his girlfriend, it goes to Delia.
• Meanwhile, at Delia’s job, she is tasked with finding out who is leaving nasty comments on their website. Delia kind of finds out who is leaving the messages and strikes up a friendship with the guy. This does not make her boss happy so she quits/is fired.
• With no job and no place to live Delia moves in with her best friend in London.
• Delia gets a new job at a PR firm but is quickly approached by an investigative journalist who tries to blackmail Delia to get dirt on her new boss.
• Paul keeps trying to get Delia back.
• Meanwhile, while staying at her childhood home, Delia finds a comic she started writing when she was younger and begins working on it again.

At times it felt like there was so much happening in this book with all the subplots. The plot went in so many different places that I was not expecting the story to go to. Honestly, I felt like there were a couple too many subplots – I found that the story dragged a bit in some parts. There were a couple of subplots that I thought would have been really interesting if they had been developed more. Additionally, there were a couple of subplots I felt the story could have done without.

This book is very British – there is a lot of British slang and terms and references to British celebrities that I didn’t know who they are. It made me wonder if this is how non-Americans feel when they read American books with all the American pop culture references.

Despite being a bit long, I enjoyed this book. There is a great cast of characters and I will definitely be looking for another one of this author’s books at the library.