Office Girl Review #12

Hello World!

So, recently I finished another book. This book was completely different to what I normally read. It was a romance, a romance between a male and a woman in the 90's, living in a city and a couple of Artists: Office Girl.

It was a spur of the moment when I picked this book up in the shop because, I am not a romance genre reader. I would like to be, I really would like to read a nice romantic and just be in love with the novel. It's hard to read a romance book, when you are the least romantic person in the world. Strike that, I pretty sure there is someone out there who could be the least romantic person. But the whole idea of flowers on the doorstep and chocolates really doesn't appeal to me.  
Office Girl however is quite the least romantic romance novels ever. Which when I first read the back, I thought "yes, this book could actually be ideal for me," and it was at the beginning.

Office girl is about a 23 year old woman Odile, who has moved to the city to attend an art school. Which you only know in the book because, the author Joe Memo mentions she is an art school drop out. The way Odile pays her rent is by working in an office. Which is where she meets Jack.
Jack is an art school graduate, who also suffers from mild depression and is also going through his first divorce at the ripe age of 25. He begins to work in an office and meet Odile. Together they build a friendship, over travelling the city and doing crazy artistic stunts. There the romance blossoms. Which doesn't last long, during their time together, they both have done some pretty good soul searching and Odile leaves him to live her life somewhere else. To keep moving onwards.

My verdict? I liked this book. Two common known hipsters who both attended art school and fall in love? What is not to like? It was a book, that seemed to have been written just for me. It was creative and sarcastic, the writing and the way the author had developed the characters. The story line however was a bit of a drag and I did feel that the ending was in some ways rushed?

Claire.