A review by bookish_mrs_w
Shopaholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella

4.0

I am apparently among the minority of people who enjoyed this installment of Shopaholic. I’m not sure how people expected the plot to go when a Shopaholic-wannabe-stylist gets dropped into LA?!? lol! I thought it was a fun ride!! And a lovely pallet cleanse from some of the contemporary romance out there! I found myself laughing through the entire book. The scenes with Becky & Suze on the red carpet and being extras on a movie were hilarious! I think, when a series goes on this many books, people forget that character growth doesn’t always happen in the arc of one book. With that given…Becky is an addict…Becky behaves like an addict and addicts don’t suddenly “get better” and change their behavior. To have her change over night would not be true to her character or any addict who battles a lifetime illness, especially one who hasn’t fully admitted to having a problem. I do think that people are missing the small ways in which Becky is growing throughout the series, there have been many nuanced side plots that have shown this.