Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic Series) by Sophie Kinsella
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Book Reviews of Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic Series)
Book Review: Could have been better
Summary: 3 Stars
My first Shopaholic was "Shopaholic Ties the Knot". From that moment I became addicted to Sophie Kinsella. I have read every book on the series, plus the hilarious "Can you Keep a Secret?" and "The Undomestic Goddess", which I think it is her best book so far.
I was a bit unsure when I began reading "Shopaholic and Sister" Jess was too difficult to like, but I loved it at the end. I laughed so hard during the whole trip to Cumbria! But with Shopaholic and Baby... well, it just wasn't as funny. Becky sounded stupid at moments. And she was not, she may be an irresponsible, self centered day dreamer but she was not stupid! Looking for home options in the Caribbean was just a bit too unbelievable. That couldn't be Becky! Becky would be looking for houses she couldn't afford, not for houses that far away!
Anyways, I enjoyed the lecture. It wasn't super, but it was ok. I hated Venetia so much and it was nice to see Jess and Suze again, the whole gang. I wished Sophie had taken a bit longer in writing it and reviewing it.
I will definitely buy her next book, though. I can't wait to get my hands on it!
Book Review: Fun to read, but its getting old
Summary: 3 Stars
Shopaholic (Becky) is now pregnant, nothing has change really, she is still overindulging and on this last book, she seems more stupid than ever!! dont get me wrong, i love the shopaholic series, but how much more can she buy?Book Review: Repetitive
Summary: 2 Stars
I read all 4 of the Shopaholic books and they seem to just be very repetitive. You can basically predict after the first book what the main character will do. But I still got through them all and though they were cute.Book Review: Awful and Ridiculous
Summary: 1 Stars
I had the misfortune of buying this book before a long flight to Europe. Due to a lack of alternative entertainment, I read the book from cover to cover. While the book had some funny excerpts, my extreme dislike for the main character (Becky Brandon) overshadowed any enjoyment garnered from the book.
Rather than being lovable, I found Becky to be irresponsible, annoying and pretentious. For example, after Becky's husband explains that his company is "hemorrhaging money" and asks her to reign in her spending, Becky responds by hiding her purchases from him. How very responsible of her, indeed.
Of course, I realize the book is of the chick lit genre, but it would have been nice to have a modicum of reality intermixed with the fiction.
To me, Becky represents the irresponsible consumerism that has resulted in the current credit crisis, and frankly, I don't find anything laughable about that. Kinsella appears to have mailed in this book, and it's evident that she exercised the same level of brain power as possessed by her heroine in thinking through the plot.
Book Review: Hideous!
Summary: 1 Stars
I have directed my dear sister to never, ever use me again as guinea pig should she want a "guy's reaction" to a book. I can only hope that this expression of so-called chick-lit is not the standard by which most women are entertained. Ms. Kinsella has, as we say in pre-school sandlots, a bit of a potty-mouth, and has transformed this into a genre that I title as "Wants to be cute so she swears." OK, we get that you know all the FCC-forbidden words. We get that your characters think endlessly about consummation of, well, just about any enounter they encounter. My recommendation for Ms. Kinsella's penalty is that she must stay on a desert island for one full month (one of the longer months, like March), and then read and read Bronte and Austen (not re-read, as I am sure that writers like Ms. Kinsella have never read Bronte or Austen), and learn from them how to use prose to transform the reader. I even have a new crime of which I now accuse Ms. Kinsella: Prose Abuse.