Pas vraiment de la grande littérature, mais c'est très agréable à lire, fluide et distrayant.
Pour meubler un moment ennuyeux, rien de tel que ce roman! ( )

Those English have a way of telling a story.

a Good laugh all the way through ( )

#102, 2004

is was a great read - it really kept my interest, and I stayed up way past my bedtime reading it one night, and finished it the next day. However, I did find the ending a bit anti-climactic and dissatisfying. Even so, overall I'd recommend it - I enjoyed the characters and the setting, and found myself drawn right in to Georgia's world. ( )

In this fun, fast-moving story, Londoner Georgia (not Georgie, thank-you very much) is starting over in Australia after breaking up with her cheating fiance.

Through her job working at Glow magazine, she ends up in the middle of Sydney social life--a dazzling whirl of parties, easy drugs and sex, and friendships both superficial and strong.

She recovers from her broken heart, makes some good friends, learns about herself, love, friendship, and trust, and ends up with a romance after all, even though she'd intended to keep things light. (No, I'm not saying who it's with or what happens--you'll have to read the book to find out! )

Pants on Fire could have easily become a cautionary tale about the evils of drug use or promiscuity, but it didn't. It also avoided cliches with Georgia's best friend, Antony, who's gay, but not a caricature. The secondary characters, and there are quite a few of them, are neither perfect nor 2-dimensional 'types'. They're realistic--people you might expect to meet if you were part of the in-crowd in Sydney.

I've never been to Australia (my husband did have the opportunity to be stationed there at one point, but we opted for Germany instead), but Pants on Fire made it come to life for me.

And I finally found out what Tim Tams are. Online buddies have been raving about them for years, and when I told them about the definition of Tim Tams in Pants on Fire, they said it was very accurate, and that they were going to go out to buy Pants on Fire, as it was obviously a brilliant book!

Another Australian chick lit. Be warned: lots of promiscuity, and drugs in this one. I had a bit of trouble with all the casual drug use--that's not something I see in fiction much at all, unless it's the villain, and it's a cautionary tale. Entertaining, but it was more of a "slice of life" story than one that actually went somewhere. ( )