Kiss Chase, written in 1995, is very much “90s chicklit”. Fiona Walker has been described as “the Jilly Cooper of the Cosmo generation” and you can definitely see the influence. Which, for me as a Jilly Cooper fan, is great. I did read some of Walker’s other works but none of them were as good as Kiss Chase.

It features an emotionally damaged, beautiful hero, Felix Sylvian, and a messed up, beautiful heroine, Phoebe, who – after a long process – finally end up together. The basic plot is that Felix has dumped Phoebe’s childhood frenemy, Saskia, and Saskia wants Phoebe to get Felix to fall in love with her and then dump him just as cruelly.  But by the time comes, Phoebe has of course fallen genuinely in love with him. There’s a lot of emotional blackmail involved.

It’s a very long book for the genre, and it takes several chapters before the “meet cute”. There’s a lot of drama, angst and gazillions of characters.

I first read Kiss Chase back in the day and re-reading it I did find it somewhat harder to forgive Felix’s early cruelty to various women.