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amibunk 's review for:
Confessions of a Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella
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.