Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic Series)
by Sophie Kinsella
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Book Reviews of Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic Series)
Book Review: when in need of a brainless break, grab this!
Summary: 3 Stars
However goofy and silly you have thought these books are, well...they probably are. But, I choose to read it because my good friend becky recommended it to me and lent it to me. It didn't start out strong with me, I seemed to be mostly annoyed at the Shopoholic for the beginning of the book, but I am not entirely unsure that the author did not mean to do this. Not to far into the book, it gained that addictive quality for me, meaning whenever I got a second it was what I would go to grab.
The book is worth reading, it is really naive, and obnoxious, and sometimes you just want to grab the shopaholic and strangle her so that she will learn to make better choices...but she does learn some things that make her much more likable after the first bit. She definitely grew on me, and now, even though I have filled my craving for chick-lit for a little while, when I need a brainless break I will definately pick up the next one! Like I mentioned about it earlier, for what it is it is good. It is fun to read, it has that brainlessness of watching tv...but you are reading! Give it a try, let me know what you think.
Book Review: Dreadful, horrible, awful, terrible, stinky, horrifying, worst book ever!
Summary: 1 Stars
I picked up this book for a recent plane ride because it looked cute and is a bestseller. That said, I don't think I even have the right words to express how much I hated it (and yes, I finished it, though I don't know why exactly -- bordedom, I guess).
Kinsella is an adequate writer, no doubt. But Becky has got to be one of the dumbest, most annoying, positively IRRITATING "heroines" I've ever had the displeasure of reading about. Why is this a bestseller? Why is she so beloved? Why is this book funny? I just don't. Get. It. I don't get what's cute about a lying moron who can't get her s--t together. I don't get what's cute about a compulsive spender who can't control herself and is extremely selfish to boot. I don't get what's that interesting about well, shopping. Doesn't she have any other hobbies? If Becky were someone I knew in real life, she'd be the sorry person whom we all laughed at behind her back. I'm outraged that this flightly little twit is considered a literary hero when all I wanted to do was reach into the pages and shake her until her tissue paper for brains fell out. Blech.
Book Review: White Lies Meant No Harm. True Or False..
Summary: 5 Stars
Part 1 of Shopaholic series. This is an easy and fun read. Just relax, take your mind off the stresses of the day. Have a good laugh, you may recognise some traits that you share with the protagonist, Rebecca (Becky) Bloomwood.
Becky has a split personality. She is a compulsive shopahoic who has no concrete sense of the value of money that has simply gone done the drain with her extravagant shopping habits. Shop on a whim is her motto. On the other hand, she is also laughably (but perhaps not so) a financial journalist for a magazine "Successful Saving"!! She gives advice to readers on how to utilize their money. To Becky, this is a dreary boring occupation which will come in handy for her future career move.
To cover up her mindless shopping debts, she tells lots of white lies to her bank manager, friends & family. Till it snowballs and things gets out of hand.
Luke Brandon, who desires her is a workaholic obsessed with his successful PR company.
As they say, opposites attract and they both clash in a TV show!!
Go read it!!
Book Review: Hilarious from beginning to end!
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked this book up for a little light entertainment, and I was quite simply blown away by the talent of the author, Sophie Kinsella! I was captured by her story and main character from the very beginning. Becky Bloomwood is the essence of the compulsive shopper's dark side that lingers in all of us. (Well, maybe not all of us -- but it sure lingers in me!)
Her plotting was intense! Every time I thought she had written herself into a corner, Ms. Kinsella brought the story to an even greater level of tension. Becky Bloomwood was perfectly drawn. As crazy as she was, I understood her every motivation -- even though I was cringing as she messed things up over and over again.
If you are searching for an escapist read that will thoroughly entertain you, I highly recommend Confessions of a Shopaholic.
The best recommendation I can give you is this: I've begun to order every single one of Sophie Kinsella's books from Amazon.com -- and I consider it money well spent! (Certainly, it's just what Becky would have done!!)
Book Review: Not so much...
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the first in the Shopaholic series. Rebecca Bloomwood has a very serious problem. She can't stop shopping. She has crazy money issues, and literally just hides her bills in a drawer and goes and shops more to make herself feel better. This novel takes place in Britain, where Bex (her nickname) spends all of her money earned as a financial journalist on the latest designer clothes. PS she knows nothing about finance, which adds humor as she bumbles her way through the work day in order to attend another press meeting that serves free champagne. The irony of her job and compulsion are cute, and Bex really means well, but honestly, can't you just cut up the credit card? How hard is it to not buy more sweaters? I'd only recommend this book if you're a big shopper, because that's the fun part. Otherwise, it's hard to like Rebecca because she comes across as irresponsible, endlessly without any willpower, and materialistic as they come. That said, I still must confess that I also read Shopaholic Ties the Knot and Shopaholic & Sister.