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A review by lizzina
The Personal Shopper by Carmen Reid
2.0
Dont' want to hide this, but there are some light spoilers in the review ;)
What I usually expect from a chick-lit is to have a quite unlikely story that makes me mostly laugh, and in which is clear from the beginning who will be the prince charming in the end.
This time I haven't had this impression here. Annie, the personal shopper and main character is somehow someone who the writer would like to be a real person. Someone who has a family to take care of, and in the meanwhile would like to meet the men of her dreams. The result is that the should-be-real character Annie is set in a world soap-opera like, in which she meets the rich dentist, in which her customers are all separate wives whose aim is to spend all their ex husbands money and in which a school teacher turns out to be the landlord of a three storey building in Highgate. Not to mention the fact that she keeps on worry about family budget while she manage to send the children in a 2000£ per month private school, buys expensive clothes, pays a mortgage and buys awful houses to be refurbished.
Terrible the idea to hide the reason why Roddie is not with the family anymore, I still can't help wondering why the author did it.
What I usually expect from a chick-lit is to have a quite unlikely story that makes me mostly laugh, and in which is clear from the beginning who will be the prince charming in the end.
This time I haven't had this impression here. Annie, the personal shopper and main character is somehow someone who the writer would like to be a real person. Someone who has a family to take care of, and in the meanwhile would like to meet the men of her dreams. The result is that the should-be-real character Annie is set in a world soap-opera like, in which she meets the rich dentist, in which her customers are all separate wives whose aim is to spend all their ex husbands money and in which a school teacher turns out to be the landlord of a three storey building in Highgate. Not to mention the fact that she keeps on worry about family budget while she manage to send the children in a 2000£ per month private school, buys expensive clothes, pays a mortgage and buys awful houses to be refurbished.
Terrible the idea to hide the reason why Roddie is not with the family anymore, I still can't help wondering why the author did it.