The Good, The Bad and the Dumped by Jenny Colgan.

The Good, the Bad and the Dumped by Jenny Colgan.

Sphere, May 2010.

Review by Laura Parish.

Now, you obviously, would never, ever look up your exes on Facebook. Nooo. And even if you did, you most certainly wouldn’t run off trying to track them down, risking your job, family and happiness in the process. Posy Fairweather, on the other hand…Posy is delighted when Matt proposes – on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But a few days later disaster strikes: he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts thinking. Why has her love life always ended in total disaster? Determined to discover how she got to this point, Posy resolves to get online and track down her exes. Can she learn from past mistakes? And what if she has let Mr Right slip through her fingers on the way?

The Good The Bad and The Dumped tells the story of Posy, who, when her boyfriend proposes and then subsequently backs out of the engagement, begins to look back on all the previous relationships in her past by using Facebook.
Being a huge fan of Jenny Colgan’s previous books (Looking For Andrew McCarthy still rates amongst my top five favourite books,) I had high expectations for this book, especially with that fantastic title. As usual, Jenny doesn’t disappoint. From start to finish, The Good, The Bad and The Dumped draws you into Posy’s story and if a lot of us are honest, who can’t relate to looking up people from our past on Facebook? I wasn’t quite sure where the story would take me when I read the first couple of chapters but the plot was so intriguing it wasn’t long before this book was glued to my hand. My advice…read this book.

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I'm Laura. I started Novel Kicks back in 2009 as I wanted a place to discuss books and writing - two loves of my life. As someone who has anxiety, these two things give me, and I am sure countless others, a much needed escape.
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