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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
Despite the stigma attached to chick-lit, I found this book delightful and fun! Rebecca Bloomfield knows how to get into and out of trouble.
I liked it well enough. Not part of the literary canon...but not everything has to be.
Rebecca is very ditzy, and then she wises up for a chapter. Overall though, a light, fun, easy read. I enjoyed reading the British terms.
Such a light and fun read. Kinsellas books are always witty and funny. Caught myself laughing out loud a few times. Can’t wait to finish the series one day
I picked this hoping for a little bit of Bridget Jones and I got lucky! This book was such fun. A little over the top - but not really. I mean - everyone has fallen victim to an incredible sale - and pushed their budget belt a little further than was comfortable. And then said to hell with it I will by a new belt. Maybe three new belts - in different colors. And maybe a new pair of slacks to go with the belts. And a matching handbag......
Fun! I am hooked!
Fun! I am hooked!
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
I did not truly enjoy the first 3/4ths of this novel. I found the main character annoying and was rather unsympathic to her plight. Rebecca is a self focused, money spending, clothes loving woman who, rather apathetically, works as a financial journalist. She does not seem to have any redeemable qualities until the last quarter of the book. Then suddenly opportunities appear, solutions to her debt arrive, and romance becomes a possibility. (In fact, the only reason that this book receives 2 stars, rather than 1, is because of that steamy little romance-I despise my weakness for such fluff but there you go.)
On the whole, I thought Jen Lancaster's "Bitter is the New Black" a much better novel than this attempt by Sophie Kinsella. Lancaster does the whole fashion-diva-who-learns-a-bitter-lesson-and-becomes-a-better-person-for-it-style. Yet her book has more humor and more depth to it. I won't be reading the rest in Kinsella's Shopaholic series.
On the whole, I thought Jen Lancaster's "Bitter is the New Black" a much better novel than this attempt by Sophie Kinsella. Lancaster does the whole fashion-diva-who-learns-a-bitter-lesson-and-becomes-a-better-person-for-it-style. Yet her book has more humor and more depth to it. I won't be reading the rest in Kinsella's Shopaholic series.
