Shopaholic Abroad by Sophie Kinsella Book Review

18-June-2009

Shopaholic Abroad book by Sophie Kinsella

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The gist

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV telling people how to manage their money – a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn, and the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York... and has asked her to go with him.

New York! The Museum of Modem Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she's been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $1007? Anyway, it's full of fantastic bargains.

The genre: Chick lit.

Our verdict

Book two of the Shopaholic series grabs you from page one. The writing is witty, to-the-point, humourous and fun; plus it's got a fantastic plot (think travel, romance, high-flying situations, snobby and trouble-making inlaws, and dilemmas) and entertains and captivates you on every page.

This book (book two in the series) is much more solid and captivating that the first book, Confessions of a Shopaholic (see our not-so-favourable review here).