The Kari AnnAlysis

What would the world find if they opened up your email? Chats with your mom? Cute little notes from your husband? Links of awesome shoes from your BFF? Drafts of emails you want to send to someone but don’t have the nerve?

Well, Holly Denham starts working at a receptionist at a bank and now her emails are out in the public. You learn about her past, her present, her friends, her family and a few secrets she hopes to keep from everyone else. You can learn so much from emails!

Seriously, this entire book is written in emails, from the sender to the subject to the email itself. And that my friends is how the story is told. Amazingly, it works like a charm. It’s fun and a new way of writing. Just writing all of this out on paper probably wouldn’t have gone over very well, but in the form of an email, it’s fantastic!

I first heard about this through my pal WriteMeg! and started reading the book online. At hollysinbox.com you can read the first three months of Holly’s life. And it’s set up like a real inbox and you have to click through the emails to read them. Very creative, very cool. I read this a couple of years ago and just picked up the book after Christmas.

Now I will warn you that this book is really long. Like 600+ pages long. But since the book is in short emails, it doesn’t take as long as most 600+ page books and is a quick read, or as quick as 600 pages can be.

I give Holly’s Inbox 5 bookmarks and have the second one on my shelf waiting to be read. I just need a few shorter books between them!

ISBN: 978-1402219030
Released: June 2, 2009
Author Website
Kari got this book from Borders with one of her million gift cards