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As you can probably gather, this is fairly brainless teen fiction. ''Out to Lunch'' is the second book featuring Zoe and Chloe. It chronicles their misadventures as they bungle their way through the summer holidays, trying to sort out their holiday to Newquay. They get into all the predictable teenage troubles – fighting with each other, fighting with their parents, getting their hearts broken, falling for the wrong people etc.
There are some great books of teen fiction – Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series springs to mind – but ''Out to Lunch'' isn't even close to the same league. While the plot is fairly average, predictable but not completely dull, an over zealous overzealous use of apostrophes and an aversion to the word 'said', make the prose a little difficult to endure.
That said, my sixteen -year -old cousin is queuing to read it and loves everything Sue Limb has ever written, so I guess it's just a matter of taste. If it were possible to give two ratings, I would give this book five stars and one star – five stars for delivering exactly what its intended audience wants, one star because I am not a part of that audience, and for me and anyone else who isn't, this book is infuriating.
As I said, this is brainless teen fiction - the characters are pretty flat, and there's nothing stunning or original about it, but if you're after a holiday read, or something to while away a train journey and you are tweenage and above, this is probably just what you are looking for. Anyone outside those parameters would probably not make it past the first chapter. I know I wouldn't have, if the duty to give a fair review had not compelled me on.
If teen fiction is your thing you might enjoy [[My So-called Life: The Tragically Normal Diary of Rachel Riley by Joanna Nadin]]. You might also enjoy [[Girls to Total Goddesses by Sue Limb]].
My thanks to the publishers for sending this book.
