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Summary: Light and airy fun
Review: This is the kind of book you can plow through in one or two sittings. The latest installment in Sophie Kinsella's "Shopaholic" series, "Shopaholic Ties the Knot" picks up where we last left the irrepressible shopping addict Becky Bloomwood, in New York City, where the Briton works as a personal shopper at Barneys. She still hasn't curbed her spending habits (and tries to convince her boyfriend Luke that a Miu Miu skirt is actually a household expense), but she's thrown for a loop when Luke proposes and wedding preparations are thrown into high gear. Actually, two weddings are being planned, one a backyard occasion put together by Becky's sweet mum in Surrey, the other million-dollar affair orchestrated by Luke's icy, Cruella DeVil-esque mother Elinor and the not-quite-human wedding planner Robyn. The only problem is, they're planned for the same day, and Becky can't muster the courage to inform her mother of that fact...That's about as deep as this "Shopaholic" gets. Fortunately, the book doesn't take itself too seriously. Becky has a crisis of conscience, and then gets distracted by a Tiffany bowl or something like that. And while she does get the chance to register for gifts at no less than four New York stores, the novel, in spite of the title, doesn't involve much actual shopping, aside from Becky's job or her trip to the bridal boutique. No, the main conflict is over the weddings, and Luke's seemingly soulless mother, who, like many mothers, is planning the wedding more for her own satisfaction than that of her son. There are a few other dramatic moments, but everything resolves itself, exactly as you expected it to. It's good, light, predictable fun, perfect for beach reading or a lazy afternoon. This isn't groundbreaking fiction, nor is it intended to be. Kinsella knows how to drive a narrative along, and her dialogue is witty and quick. Don't expect any major revelations or life-altering lessons. This is just a fun romp into a make-believe world where people can book the Plaza hotel for a wedding or hop a lear jet to England, and fortunately for us, Becky Bloomwood is an endearing guide. Kinsella is obviously having a good time poking fun at the excesses of modern-day weddings, as well as of stuffy high society, showing that while it may be fun to visit that place, you wouldn't want to live there. 3.5/5 stars
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Summary: Reading is now as much fun as Shopping
Review: This book shows you that everything we women buy is an "investment". We can always used for later....or not. But who cares when you get it on sale, Right? That is what this book taught me. Most women will simply buy because its on sale or because we can use it down the road. It just shows how women really behave when they are on shopping mode. This book was so much that I could not put it down and so where the other two books.
Reading Sophie Kinsella's books really is a lot of fun, almost more fun then shopping.
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Summary: I never get tired of this book!
Review: Despite Becky's "shopaholic" habits, she truly has a heart of gold! I wouldn't call this serious literature, but it is definitely a fun read! This is the third installment of the shopaholic trilogy, and the only downside is that this is the last Becky book!
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Summary: Entertaining but Frustrating
Review: Sophie Kinsella needs very much to stop here. The first book was excellent, the second was good, but I would definitely rate this one as fair. I love Becky's character and I can identify with her financial challenges and her inability to pull herself away from a Prada sale, however, I have trouble finding the situation she got herself into this time as believable. It was fun, which is why it got the three star rating, but if I see a "Shopaholic has twins" book on the shelf I think that I will walk on by! I think this author is incredibly talented and I am eagerly awaiting her next character!
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I loved the Shopaholic series, and this is no dissapointment. I laughed from start to finish and am truly won over.
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Summary: The best one yet!!
Review: This book kept me laughing the whole way through!! i loved how becky pretended to not want to get married.
("Ten years?" Mum looked like she was about to cry.) LOL!!
and how Luke finally found out the weren't____ at the ____. heehee! so funny and adorable as well!
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Summary: Fun & Entertaining
Review: This book was very good, not as great as the first too, but then again, this point of view is coming from a very single girl. I don't usually read much, but love this fun and entertaining book, which was a quick read, even for me, a slow reader. I don't think you can go wrong with this or any of the shopaholic books!!
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Summary: Buy this book!
Review: This book is fabulous for every woman but is certainly a must-read for any bride to be. With it's long in coming resolution, it keeps you reading, dying to know what is going to happen. You will laugh at loud as you read it. The farther you read, the funnier it gets!
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Summary: Fun summer reading
Review: In this third installment of the SHOPAHOLIC series, Becky is just as out of control as ever! After finally grabbing the man of her dreams, living a much enviable life as a personal shopper at Barney?s New York (how totally apropos for the irrepressible Miss Bloomwood), and watching her best friends marry in a rather wild wedding, our Becky lands AN ENGAGEMENT RING as well! But to top it all off, she is inundated with her obsessed mother, who is determined to have a backyard garden wedding in Oxshott, England, and her social-aggrandizing mother-in-law, who entices her with a fantasy wedding at the Plaza Hotel in all its resplendent manner! Given the obvious quandary, no wonder our ?heroine? is up to her usual antics! Of all the SHOPAHOLICS, I really enjoyed this one. The first two focused entirely on Becky?s arrested development and manic shopping habits at the expense of everything else in her life. Although hilarious, it was frustrating after 600 pages (two books!). However, this third installment enters into the arena of wedding planning, over-excited mothers, and over-bearing mother-in-laws, and therefore redeems itself as a book ALL prospective or past brides can identify and laugh with. Buy it for your Bride-zilla best friend? it will put a perspective on things! Read it to laugh, if only to remember how planning your own wedding was like. It?s fluff, but that?s okay.
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Summary: Best One Yet
Review: This is hands down my favorite book of the series. I read it on a plane and laughed aloud the whole way. I was still reading it at the baggage carousel, driving my husband insane because I was at the end and HAD to see what happens and couldn't help look for the bags. I'll admit Becky's problems are a tad unrealistic, but hey, they made me forget my own for a few hours, and isn't what books are for? I even laughed at the sneak preview of Sophie Kinsella's next book, which was at the end. I can't wait until it comes out. I love Sophie and hope she continues to write such fun books for years to come.
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