Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic Series)
by Sophie Kinsella
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Book Reviews of Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic Series)
Book Review: Absolutely my favorite out of the entire series!
Summary: 5 Stars
I could not put the book down! I stayed up until 1:00 am to finish it. I absolutely loved it. I found myself hysterically laughing at so many parts in the book (Becky's mum and Janice talking about what labor was really like & the names Becky told Elinor they were considering.... so funny!). The story brought so many memories back of my own first pregnancy and the fears I felt about labor and being someone's mother. Also, that first time you see that little baby and the feeling that comes over you - Sophie Kinsella hit it on the head! Then there was the serious parts too when Becky thought she had lost Luke (and I don't blame her for feeling that way either). All around, it was just a FABULOUS book! I know Sophie Kinsella has said she will bring Becky & Luke back, I really hope this is true (she just HAS to - too much is left unfinished)and that she does it sooner rather than later (that's for my own selfish reasons - LOL). In fact, I hope she brings them back in several more books (for those who think the story is over, you don't have to buy them - there are plenty of us who will GLADLY keep on reading them).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: Pregnancy Hormones on Overdrive?
Summary: 4 Stars
This latest installment in the Shopaholic series was not my favorites, but certainly a good read. As someone with a young toddler, whose memories of pregnancy are pretty fresh in my mind, parts of this book took me back to what it was like to be expecting. For instance, while we aren't lucky enough to have the largest baby store on the planet, I felt overwhelmed right alongside Becky and Luke trying to pick out items from nearly a gazillion choices. There were just too many possibilities!
The part with Venetia Carter trying to steal look away, was just a tad bit unbelievable, I mean really, this women had to be the ultimate jerk to say such horrible things to Becky as she went into labor, and to confront Becky and lie to her about Luke leaving her. What physician in their right mind would do such a thing...although perhaps she wasn't...or maybe the pregnancy hormones were in overdrive...
I didn't laugh as much through this book, as I had with earlier installments, but it was still a very good read and hopefully there will be a "Shopaholic and Toddler" soon!
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.Book Review: Same Becky as ever
Summary: 4 Stars
If you have enjoyed the Shopaholic series in the past then you will enjoy this too. I found this particular adventure of Becky's even more fanciful than they others.
In this book,as the title probably gives away, Becky is pregnant with her first baby. She has her same wacky adventures mostly related to Pram shopping but she is dealing with a potentially cheating husband.
The caricature of her conniving OB and her husband are kind of over the top and Kinsella works so hard to sell the cheating senario that as she wraps up the book a lot of the pieces don't fit together.
I also wasn't totally on board with Becky's pregnancy experience, having had two kids myself it didn't feel very realistic to me.
Having said that, I gave the book 4 stars because it is just plain fun to read. So bottom line, if you are a shopaholic fan, you will enjoy this too, just don't wait for it to get the pulitzer.