Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic Series) by Sophie Kinsella
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Book Reviews of Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic Series)
Book Review: Love the series... hate the language
Summary: 4 Stars
I have read the entire series of Shopaholic books and this one does not dissappoint. However... with each one, the language gets worse and worse. That might not bother most people, but it bothers me. The stories are so cute, and the characters are so loveable - the language is just completely unnecessary and I think it takes away from the books. Still, these are fun, light reads and you can't help but love Becky Bloomwood!Book Review: Can you love the book but hates the heroine?
Summary: 4 Stars
That's what append to me averytime a read something about Becky. I love the Shopaholic series but I really can not understand how can a man put up with her. :)Book Review: Great book
Summary: 4 Stars
Liked it a lot. Becky seems to be growing up a little. She's not getting into as many sticky situations. This was a very good book.Book Review: 3.5 Stars
Summary: 3 Stars
I started reading the Shopaholic series in 2004. I loved the first book, Confessions of a Shopaholic and immediately jumped into Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, which is still my favorite of the series. It's filled with humorous situations, however it takes a real look on the consequences of impulsive shopping. I read books 3 and 4, but when Shopaholic & Baby was released, I started it and then put it down.
Fast forward to 2009. It's two years later and I've finally picked this up again to read. I decided to listen to the audio book and the narrator, Rosalyn Landor, did a fantastic job of bringing the characters to life. Becky and her husband, Luke, are expecting their first child. Always wanting to have the latest "in" thing, Becky convinces Luke they must have Dr. Venetia Carter as their OB-GYN as she is also the physician to the celebrities. During their initial visit, Becky learns that Dr. Carter and Luke are former school mates and previously dated! Becky is stunned by the news and gradually begins to feel insecure about herself and her marriage.
True to the series, Ms. Kinsella fills the pages with humor as we read about the predicaments Becky finds herself in. Having doubts about her marriage, Becky hires a private detective, only what he discovers is not what she asked for. Becky learns that things are not always what they seem.
So is it a girl or boy? I guess you'll have to read Shopaholic & Baby to find out!
Book Review: Still Becky, still charming, but...
Summary: 3 Stars
My dirty little secret: I have read all of the SHOPAHOLIC books. Obviously, I have liked them, or I wouldn't have kept on reading.
Still, in SHOPAHOLIC AND BABY, author Sophie Kinsella finally may be running out of steam. These books are kind of like a one note symphony, and that note now is getting tired.
On the other hand, her heroine Becky Bloomwood is so marvelously realized that it is impossible not to enjoy her skewed--but sweetly so--Becky view of the world.
In this novel, Sophie has Becky happily married to hunk Luke Brandon and expecting her first baby. Nothing but the best for Sophie's favorite character. Though pregnant, Becky remains obsessed by fashion here, probably a victim of fashion, albeit a victim with swollen feet.
Even if the humor is getting predictable, Kinsella is an excellent writer whose plot structure and use of language remain first-class. And, as always, Kinsella transmits a wonderful sense of place; in this story, upper class, up-to-the-minute London, as seen through the cockeyed prism that is Becky's point-of-view.
All of the SHOPAHOLIC books are interesting and, just as importantly, these also are fun.