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A review by icelacs
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
1.0
I remember picking this book up because it came highly recommended by several friends. When I finally considered reading it, I looked at the premise of the book (a person suffering from shopping addiction) and I had to wonder why there were already several books in the series that still carried the same theme.
That should have been a sign of bad things to come.
There are few books that I dislike more than this one--and this is with me suspending disbelief and giving it much more of a chance than it deserved. The author had built up the protagonist's shopping addiction to become such a destructive and useless habit that I am never able to reconcile with how she can't ever seem to learn her lesson. (Hence the need for X more books to fill the series.) How can we reward her for this when all the other events in the book clearly indicate that what she has been doing is clearly unhealthy and should be stopped? :(
I can't. I just can't.
That should have been a sign of bad things to come.
There are few books that I dislike more than this one--and this is with me suspending disbelief and giving it much more of a chance than it deserved. The author had built up the protagonist's shopping addiction to become such a destructive and useless habit that I am never able to reconcile with how she can't ever seem to learn her lesson. (Hence the need for X more books to fill the series.) How can we reward her for this when all the other events in the book clearly indicate that what she has been doing is clearly unhealthy and should be stopped? :(
I can't. I just can't.