Book By: Pepper Basham
Move over Bridget Jones, Izzy Edgewood is in town!
Pepper Basham’s newest release, Authentically Izzy is Bridget Jones’s Diary if Sophie Kinsella wrote super clean romantic comedy. It’s a well-crafted novel with plenty of wit and swoon-worthy men to add to your to-be-read pile come November.
I found myself laughing out loud on more than one occasion, which was a much-needed reprieve from the heavier content novels I’ve been reading lately. Izzy’s match-making cousin creates a dating profile for Izzy on a dating website which sets readers up for a hilarious series of events that leads Izzy to her happily-ever-after.
The entire novel is epistolary – meaning the whole thing is a collection of correspondence between characters. Some correspondences are email-type passages while others are simply telephone-texts. Readers get insight to the relationships between Izzy and her cousins, and Izzy and her love (or potential) interest.
I loved the story. There’s plenty of romance, awkward moments and a solid faith-thread sewn throughout this inspirational romantic comedy.
If you loved Bridget Jones’s Diary or books by Sophie Kinsella, but want a clean, faith-based read, then definitely pick up Pepper Basham’s Authentically Izzy.
I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley. All opinions expressed are my own.