On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson #2

by Louise Rennison

You don't have to be a teenager to appreciate the humorous and often self-absorbed ravings found in 14-year-old Georgia Nicolson's diary, but it certainly helps. Now fans of Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging -- Georgia's first set of hilarious musings on life -- can get another peek into the mind of this wryly inquisitive English lass in the appealing sequel: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God.

As the title implies, Georgia has snagged herself a sex god in the form of Robbie, the boy of her dreams. Now that they've indulged in a bit of "full-frontal snogging," Georgia turns her attention to advancing the relationship. But things quickly go wrong when she learns that her father's new job may necessitate a move to New Zealand. Crestfallen, Georgia feels her life might as well be over. Then, miraculously, the dreaded move is cancelled, and things seem to be getting better -- at least until 17-year-old Robbie decides to break up with Georgia because he's bothered by the difference in their ages.

Borrowing freely from her mum's closet and advice books, even as she's steadfastly discounting everything her mum says, a crushed but determined Georgia comes up with a scheme to win Robbie back. As usual, nothing goes as planned, and life is further complicated by Georgia's temperamental cat, Angus (who's having a few amorous leanings of his own), and her baby sister, Libby, whose fascination with (and lack of control over) her bodily functions leads to several intriguing mishaps. Of course, there are other disasters, too: a quick-tan lotion that turns Georgia's legs orange, a run-in with the aptly named Bummer sisters, and friends who insist on focusing on their own problems from time to time.

Who knew the angst of adolescence could be so much fun? This Georgia's-eye view of teenage life is wonderfully egocentric and side-splittingly funny. And despite the occasional language barrier (a glossary of terms is provided in the back of the book), Georgia's thoughts and experiences will prove universally recognizable to anyone who is, or has ever been, a teenager.

--Beth Amos

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Humor, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Teen

243 pages, Hardcover

First published June 29, 2000

About the author

Louise Rennison was the bestselling award-winning author of the phenomenally successful ‘Confessions of Georgia Nicolson’ series, translated into over 34 languages and to the stage and big screen as ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’. She has won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize, the Michael L. Printz Honor Book and the Roald Dahl Funny prize for ‘Withering Tights’. Louise sadly died on February 29, 2016.

Reviews

[Tatiana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Comedy gold, part2

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Second book of the Georgia Nicholson series and I'm laughing my socks off!!

Five stars.

[Lala BooksandLala · Rating 5 out of 5]

my 2003-inspired reading vlog https://youtu.be/PBCF96Jelaw

[Kristina Horner · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I liked the second book even more than the first one in the series, because Dave the Laugh is my favorite character. I love Georgia's confusion as to whether it's more important to have a boyfriend who makes you go jelloid or one who makes you laugh.
Really enjoying this re-read of the series. Bring on the next one!

[April (Aprilius Maximus) · Rating 4 out of 5]

1.) Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging ★★★★.5
2.) It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers ★★★★
3.) Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas ★★★

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[trigger warnings are listed at the bottom of this review and may contain spoilers]

★★★★

omg i love these books so much... they're so funny and the audiobooks are SO GOOD. AND I LOVE DAVE THE LAUGH. HE DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER. I'm still feeling super weird about her being 14 and sexgod being almost 18 YIKES.


trigger warnings: very outdated and offensive sense of humour (e.g. joking about suicide, joking about being a lesbian, potentially racist remarks, etc.), bullying.

[Beth]

No "proper" Review again...

- Dave The Laugh
- ALL OF MY TEENAGE YEARS
- Piddly Diddly Department.

I love this series.

22.04.2021

I swear Dave the Laugh just gives me life!

[Cyndi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Picture, if you will, Bridget Jones as a 14 yr. old girl. She has a crush on the cute musician next door, has a few close girlfriends who help her with her schemes and a quirky family which includes a three year old sister who sometimes terrorizes her.
Very cute series written in diary form. Relaxing, entertaining and makes me thrilled to not only have me out of my teen years, but my kids, too. 😊

[Caitlin]

dave the laugh you will always be famous x

[Katie.dorny · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second instalment. Still as witty and easy to flick through as the first. They're being good to me; distracting me from all the revision I should be doing.

[Ellis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ode to Georgia

aptly retitled: Dayum, am I glad I accepted Cecile's FR and followed her book rec.

Good grief, Thy Schnozzle-beaked Fabulosity, elle qui
est amies with the "really big knickers"-wearing
one! Thy powers of hilariosity never disappoint me.
Result!!! OhmyGodohmyGodohmyGod now PLEASE dump the SG &
get off with Dave the Laugh, already! Bloody sacré blue,
I CANNOT BELIEVE that he doesn't make your knees
all jelloid. Your fabbity fab fans agree that SG is
not worthy, he is not worthy. His douchiosity
is making us go BERSERK!!! Horriblement erlack. I
could not be happier that I still have eight more
of the Ace Gang's adventures to read.
Let out your Buddhist warrior chant when you're
surrounded by les idiots and tell me how the world you
Om Om Om in is BONKERS with knobs!!!
Never let the wet and weedy one (Lindsay) defeat you,
for she is only jelly of votre maturosity. The nob is
that you should have come à mon attention much sooner.
What is the matter with people parents??? Oh blimey - what a life!!!



This ace bit of jibberish and senselessness was brought to you by:

[✰ Bianca ✰ BJ's Book Blog ✰ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny. Adorable. Crazy. I love Georgia!!!!

[Tatiana · Rating 4 out of 5]

What I like most about the Georgia Nicolson series is that it doesn’t try to be posh. It strives for absurdosity and succeeds. This installment picked up where Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging left off, with Georgia losing the SG and protesting a move to Kiwi-a-gogo Land (a.k.a. New Zealand). From there, it only gets crazier: cat mating, Elastic Band theory, Dr. George Clooney, the German language, a wheelbarrow, etc.

Georgia is like the friend you want to dope slap, but just shake your head and laugh at instead because you realize whatever you do won’t make a lick of difference. She’s going to do mad things no matter what. That’s why glimpses of her nicer side are so surprising. Deep down beneath the stupidity and shallowness and mascara is a good person. Deep, deep down.

Anyway, is it wrong that I dislike the SG and think Georgia should beg Dave the Laugh (a.k.a. best boyfriend EVER) to take her back? Nein? Thought so.

[Becca & The Books · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five Stars for Nostalgia.
Would also highly recommend the audiobook for this series as it's narrated by the author and is hilarious!

Something I discovered while rereading this - Robbie's a bit of a Dick
Something that's still true after rereading this - Dave's a sweetheart <3

[Kristen Peppercorn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeah, no. This series is definitely not for me.

[Lidija]

Zovite socijalnu službu!
I ne budite prijatelj kao Džordžija!

Izdvojila bih i kao hit:
"Ne želim da budem zavodnica, to bi značilo da sam lezbejka."

Ne odustajem od serijala, doduše.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 LAUGH AT LOUD STARS!

“He said, 'Hi, gorgeous,' which I think is nice. I admire honesty.”

So, once again Georgia Nicolson made laugh a lot with her occurences. I swear that I would ditch this book if it wasn't for all the stupid and funny things she said, because the story perse is boring.

“She got up and started making her hair have more bouncability with the air brush thing again. I waited until she had got it just right (in her opinion); then I hit her over the head with a pillow. She started to say, "Look, this is not funn-" but before she could finish I hit her over the head again with the pillow. And every time she tried to talk I did it again. She got all red-faced, which in Jas's case is very red indeed. It made me feel much better. Violence may be the answer to the world's problems. I may write to the Dalai Lama and suggest he tries my new approach.”

She is a BULLY! Everything is against Jas, and poor her that I don't know how they still friends. Georgia gives the most horrible tips and advices. Jas has like broke up twice with her boyfriends thanks to Georgia. Thank God that Jas is not that dumb and she comes back to him, because they are a really sweet couple. Another sweet couple is Sven and Rosie. Sven made laugh every time he apperead, because no one ever understands what he is saying.

“Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on where you were sitting) Libby let off the smelliest, loudest fart known to humanity. It came out of her bum-oley with such force that she lifted off my knee - like a hovercraft. Even she looked surprised by what had come out of her.”

I'm trying to understand if Georgia's sister, Liberty aka Libbs, has a problem because she does the most random and weird things. I don't remember my sister or me doing those things. Plus her mother is always ignoring her like she doesn't care, i hate it.

“Boys are like elastic bands... Boys are different from girls. Girls like to be cozy all the time but boys don't. First of all, they like to get all close to you like a coiled-up rubber band, but after a while, they get fed up with being too coiled and need to stretch away to their full stretchiness. Then, after a bit of on-their-own strategy, they ping back to be close to you.”

I'm trying to understand Georgia's way, I do, but I can't. Is she is so in love with Robbie, why is she so stupid in front of him. I guess that she turns more than jelly thanks to love? Sacré Bleu! Why I'm still reading this? I don't know. Will I keep reading it? Sí.

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Strongly feel as though I owe about 200% of my personality to these books

[George Ilsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Perhaps I should have waited longer after reading Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. I enjoyed "Angus" but "Sex God" really goes no further in the story, and the voice of 14 year old Georgia was starting to grate more than amuse.

"Angus" ends with the boyfriend (the Sex God) telling Georgia that she was too young (he's 17, she's 14). "Sex God" opens immediately after this earth shattering development, and yet that whole plot point is repeated. This time he writes her a letter, explaining that she is too young for him.

The title of this book is rather misleading. I'm rounding it down to 3 stars, and I think for now my phase experiencing the rollercoaster emotions of a 14 year girl as rendered by a 40 year old woman, is maybe officially over. I'm not saying I'm going to grow up—just move on.

[Chloe Reads Books · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 STARS
The same rating as the first book in the series! I really don't think these books have aged very well, but also there isn't any character development. It's hard to be objective having seen the movie (which spans several books), but Georgia seems to be making the same decisions over and over, with no negative consequences, and no sign of growth. I understand that she's 14/15, but it's rather repetitive.

[Rayene Ziadi · Rating 5 out of 5]

To quote Gee: " i am in the land of the very fab, in fact beyond the valley of fab and into the universe of marvy"
The books are making me very happy in addition to laughing my knickers off!

[Marija · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, what’s the matter with that Georgia! How could she do that to the poor kid? Dave the Laugh’s the perfect guy… “Dave phoned. He said, ‘I just called to say I really liked you. Night night.’” I think that’s really cute. How could she not fall in love? Oh, I don’t know… but there’s definitely something off with that “Sex God” of hers. When I think about the two of them, that jailbait infatuation, it congers up an image of Gidget and the Kahuna. ;) But it’ll probably end the same way with Gidget getting her Moondoggie. But it’ll be fun to see how it’ll all play out.

But like in Angus, there are quite a few priceless gem moments:

“I hope I am not being driven to the brink of madness by grief. They say that some people never get over things, like whatshername, Kathy Thing. The one who wandered over the moors at night yelling, ‘Heathcliffe, Heathcliffe, it’s me a-Kathy come home again.’”

“I’ve spent so much time in bed I’ll probably start growing a long white beard soon, like Rip van Thing.”

“I could be like a sad old sadsack or I could gird my loins and be like in that song. The one where you have to search for the hero within yourself. Jas was waiting for me at the bus stop. She said, ‘Why are you walking in that stiff way?’ ‘I’m girding my loins.’ ‘Well, it looks painful, like you’ve got a stick up your bottom.’”

[noa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still, I refuse to be upset. I will remain calm beneath my egg and olive oil face mask.

Hilarious. Georgia Nicolson is an icon. Although not a lot happens in this book (and I preferred the first one), it’s really funny and witty. Don’t take this book too seriously. I’ve seen a lot of people complaining that Georgia is only focused on her nose and on her boyfriend. And…. Yeah, she is. That’s the point. She’s an angsty teenager, kinda mean to her friends, and in love with a Sex God. I was laughing reading this book and I mean actually laughing . Georgia is a well of golden sassy quotes.

I can’t believe Jas. She is dead to me. Like in the Bible, when somebody goes off and becomes a prostitute or something. She is now the girl who has no name.

“It’s me, Jas.” “Oh...What do YOU want?” “I’ve just called to see how you are.” I said, “Dead actually, I died a few hours ago. Goodbye.”

Also thanks to Holly for recommending this book series ☀️

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some of the books in this series have different titles between the original and US versions. I grew up reading On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God and was confused when my paperback copy had the following title I'll explain in a play-by-play between my parents and I on a weekend trip:

Me: "Mom, did you move my book off the table?"
Mom: "I don't know, what's it called?"
Me, quietly: "It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers."
Mom: "What?"
Me, louder but faster: "It'sOKI'mWearingReallyBigKnickers."
Mom: "What?"
Me: "IT'S! OKAY! I'M! WEARING! REALLY! BIG! KNICKERS!"
Dad: "For crying out loud, Lauren!"

[Bonnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, Georgia. <3

[Kathryn_w_221185 · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you liked the first one, you will like this one - a good sequel

[Lola May · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enter Dave the Laugh, the man everyone I date must live up to! Georgia is such a bad friend it’s almost comical and rereading this series is giving me a slight complex about my nose

[Nhi Nguyễn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mình mua và đọc cuốn này từ sau khi xem xong bộ phim "Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging" hay ơi là hay, hài ơi là hài, ra mắt hồi năm 2008, đúng lúc mình vừa mới lên lớp 10 :D (phim có anh Aaron Johnson đóng vai nam chính "Sex God" Robbie á, mà giờ ảnh đi lấy bà đạo diễn gấp đôi tuổi ảnh rồi á, giờ tên ảnh là Aaron Taylor-Johnson rồi :D). Phim được dựng từ hai cuốn tập 1 và tập 2 của series "Lời Tự Thú của Georgia Nicolson". Phải nói là cái series này bá đạo thiệt, hài khủng khiếp, con bé Georgia Nicolson đúng là bựa vãi luôn :D :D :D. Bộ truyện này là một phần tuổi thanh xuân/thời teenager ngốc xít của mình :))) Mấy bữa dọn nhà ra mới phát hiện có mua và đọc bộ này, mà chưa đánh dấu "read" trên Goodreads ha ha, nên giờ làm đây ha ha :D Mà không hiểu sao mình lại đọc tập 2 và 3 trước khi đọc tập 1 :D Thôi để mấy bữa đọc luôn tập 1 và 4 cái coi :))))

[Miks · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 🌟

[Esme · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5⭐

[Aly · Rating 2 out of 5]

These books are just too much for me. Georgia is over the top ridiculous and instead of finding it funny, I think it's annoying. I'm definitely not the target audience for these books and I'm sure a 14 year old would like the characters and crazy story more. I completely understand Robbie breaking up with Georgia, especially because I don't think an almost 18 year old should date a 14 year old. I liked Dave better for Georgia, he seemed to find her funny and care about her and she just used him which bummed me out.
The narrator did a good job channeling the character and had a nice British voice.