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Shopaholic to the Stars
by Sophie Kinsella
I wasn't expecting much from the Shopaholic books but I loved the first one and it's one of the best 'chick lit' books I've read. I loved Becky as a character and so I've read each follow up as they've come out and my love for the Shopaholic world has declined steadily as the quality of the books have gotten worse and worse.
I was surprised that there was a seventh book because the last one was pretty awful. This one is even worse.
Good stuff first (and why this book got 2 stars instead of 1):
- Kinsella's writing is still great.
- It made me laugh out loud in parts.
Bad stuff:
- What has happened to Becky?! So I get that the whole point of this book is that she becomes swept up in what's happening to her but she's just SO self centered that it doesn't seem like her. I know she's always been a bit selfish and dim but still.
- There are too many sub-plots. There is too much going on and it all snowballs in the second half of the book, so much so that when I saw I was 80% done on my Kindle version I thought there must be some kind of mistake because there was so much left to resolve. But of course...nothing does get resolved because there's a bloody cliffhanger and a promise of book number 8. NO NO NO. I don't care about Becky's dad/Tarkie/Bryce's plot enough to read a WHOLE other book following up on it. Why couldn't Kinsella have cut the crap and just brought everything to a nice end?
- I've read so many romcom books (I hate the term chick lit) that this shouldn't bother me, but C'MON why doesn't Becky or Luke care one jot about all the money she is spending? Her shopping problem is mentioned a few times and I do think it's amusing how she justifies purchases to herself but aside from a few tame remarks by Luke she never gets questioned about it.
- The Luke/Elinor story was bizarre, over in a flash and added why exactly?
- I'd like to think that the next book is the last, it's been dragged out for so long and it needs to be put to rest. Kinsella has written some great stand alone books and doesn't need the safety of the Shopaholic series any longer. At the moment I'm thinking this Shopaholic book will be my last but I know I'll be buying the next one out of a sense of loyalty and finality, which I suppose answers the question of why Kinsella is still bothering with the series.
All in all...so disappointing.
I was surprised that there was a seventh book because the last one was pretty awful. This one is even worse.
Good stuff first (and why this book got 2 stars instead of 1):
- Kinsella's writing is still great.
- It made me laugh out loud in parts.
Bad stuff:
- What has happened to Becky?! So I get that the whole point of this book is that she becomes swept up in what's happening to her but she's just SO self centered that it doesn't seem like her. I know she's always been a bit selfish and dim but still.
- There are too many sub-plots. There is too much going on and it all snowballs in the second half of the book, so much so that when I saw I was 80% done on my Kindle version I thought there must be some kind of mistake because there was so much left to resolve. But of course...nothing does get resolved because there's a bloody cliffhanger and a promise of book number 8. NO NO NO. I don't care about Becky's dad/Tarkie/Bryce's plot enough to read a WHOLE other book following up on it. Why couldn't Kinsella have cut the crap and just brought everything to a nice end?
- I've read so many romcom books (I hate the term chick lit) that this shouldn't bother me, but C'MON why doesn't Becky or Luke care one jot about all the money she is spending? Her shopping problem is mentioned a few times and I do think it's amusing how she justifies purchases to herself but aside from a few tame remarks by Luke she never gets questioned about it.
- The Luke/Elinor story was bizarre, over in a flash and added why exactly?
- I'd like to think that the next book is the last, it's been dragged out for so long and it needs to be put to rest. Kinsella has written some great stand alone books and doesn't need the safety of the Shopaholic series any longer. At the moment I'm thinking this Shopaholic book will be my last but I know I'll be buying the next one out of a sense of loyalty and finality, which I suppose answers the question of why Kinsella is still bothering with the series.
All in all...so disappointing.