Can You Keep A Secret?

My first answer would be "hell, no". But thinking about it, I do have a couple of secrets that I just can't let people know. I'm not proud of them but in my defense, I was too young to know better. And no, now's not the time to let the world know haha.

Back to this book. I've read all Sophie Kinsella's novels but this one is still my favorite. Putting the fairy-tale-too-good-to-be-true story aside, I like Emma Corrigan's character a lot. I'd say the best parts of the book is whenever her boss, Jack, reminds her in a subtle way how he knew all of her secrets. I especially loved the part about how Emma improvised with the "Leopold file" code and she wasn't sure if it really exists. It showed how Emma can be really creative and how she looks at things differently.

From Publishers Weekly
Things are suddenly starting to look up for the hapless but optimistic Emma Corrigan. She has kept her job at Panther Cola for nearly a year, has the perfect boyfriend and hopes for a promotion to marketing executive should her first opportunity to strut her stuff and land a business deal be successful. Unfortunately, things don't go quite as planned, and on her unusually turbulent return flight from a disappointing client meeting, in a terrified state, she confesses her innermost secrets to the good-looking stranger sitting beside her. When she shows up at work the next morning, she is horrified to discover that her mystery man is none other than the revered and brilliant Jack Harper, American CEO of Panther Cola, on a weeklong visit to the company's U.K. branch. Thus begins a series of chaotic, emotionally exhausting and funny episodes that thrust Emma, with her workaholic best friend, Lissy, and their awful flatmate Jemima, into a world of fairy tales, secrets and deceit. Venturing beyond Saks and Barney's, the bestselling author of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot entertains readers with backstabbing office shenanigans, competition, scandal, love and sex. The plot is gossamer thin (Jack is keeping secrets of his own) and the lopsided romance not entirely believable, but Kinsella's down-to-earth protagonist is sure to have readers sympathizing and doubled over in laughter.

I like this better than the shopaholic series. I do love to shop but Becky's just too much for me. Emma, on the other hand, made me laugh so much and Jack's romantic gestures (i.e. telling Emma's family about her annoying cousin, buying coffee for the office just because Emma hated the taste, having a bus change its usual route to take you home) made me want to wish that it could happen to me.