My Mad Fat Diary Book Review

Its been about a month since we saw the final episode of My Mad Fat Diary grace our screens and to my delight it was announced that they're currently filming series two. Being that I enjoyed the TV series so much, I couldn't stand the wait, so I bought the book.

Rae is a 16 year old girl living in the 1990's. She likes the things that all other 16 year old girls like such as Boys, friends and good music. However, her normality is disguised by the fact that she weighs fifteen and a half stone and she is also fresh out of a mental hospital.
She lives in a council flat in Stamford with her crazy mum, who stops her from doing anything that 'may' trigger her illness and this means no parties, no alcohol and certainly NO BOYS. Her mum also welcomes an Moroccan body builder into their home, which she hates.   

She craves love, but this isn't help that shes got a bitch of a 'friend' who aims 
to upstage her. The book is written in short diary extracts and the language reminds me of 'Angus thongs and perfect snogging.

However, the book is altogether quite bland and the events in the book aren't as dramatic as in the TV series and I like dramatic events, so that was unfortunate. It gets quite confusing at times because all the names of the characters were different from the series. I kept on trying to work out who was who, but ended up puzzled.  Its almost like channel 4 made up a completely new story line  I don't know how they can even claim that it's based on this book to be honest, it just isn't the same. I didn't feel the emotions that came with watching the series. Overall, quite a big disappointment really. It is unusual for me to say that a tv series is better than a book, but in this case it is true.

So, sorry if you were planning to read this after watching the series on tv, but it just isn't worth it. I'd much rather wait for series two :) 

I hope you liked this post,
Jodie xxxxxxx