The shopaholic one

Long time, no read Sophie Kinsella. The perfect pick me up when you're not sure what to read next. The Shopaholic books are usually fun to read and breezy with a lot of giggle. Sure you may not remember most of the plot, book to book but you recall the main heroine Becky and her antics tend to pull the story along just fine. 

I loved the first few books and was rightly aghast at the awful movie they made off the first book. I railed against the changed made to Rebecca's character and how they made Luke unlikeable.  But since she had a child and moved to America, Rebecca has been an utter disaster. What used to make her adorable, now just seems silly and flighty. "pull it together" you feel like hissing to her while gritting your teeth together for a public smile. But the last Shopaholic book had a cliffhanger and noone can say I don't follow through. So there's some new shenanigans involving her father and Tarkie and only Rebecca can set things right. A madcap adventure ensues and we do Las Vegas with Ms. Bloomwood. But the jokes fall flat and she's not very entertaining anymore. One is reading to get to the last page and we heave a sigh of relief that everyone is headed back to good ole England in the next book. 

The letters with Derek Smeath seem to be the nicest parts of the book and I would read his memoirs gladly. But cut me some slack if I don't buy the next Shopaholic book in a hurry.