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Shopaholic & Sister Reviews
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What’s a round-the-world honeymoon if you can’t buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky found in Hong Kong…the hand-carved dining table (and ten chairs) from Sri Lanka…the, um, huge wooden giraffes from Malawi (that her husband Luke expressly forbade her to buy)… Only now Becky and Luke have returned home to London and Luke is furious. Two truckloads of those souvenirs have cluttered up their loft, and the bills for them are outrageous. Luke insists Becky go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky’s feeling rather blue—when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She’s convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They’ll go shopping together, have manicures together.…Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood’s sister can’t…hate shopping?

Sophie Kinsella is a former financial journalist and the author of the bestselling novels Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Can You Keep a Secret?, and The Undomestic Goddess. She lives in England, where she is at work on her next book.

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    Recommended? Fugheddaboutit!
    May 06, 2008

    I enjoyed Kinsella's first three books of the Shopaholic series, but this one fell a little flat for me. Although there were some funny moments, it started to get boring, and honestly, I didn't feel it was creative enough. The fact that Becky had a long-lost sister she didn't know about and seemed to be the complete opposite of her, it was just too predictable, as all the others, including Shopaholic & Baby, and the Undomesticated Goddess, both of which I started to read, but just dropped it out of complete boredom.

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    November 28, 2007

    This book was a huge disappointment after the success of the previous books. The plot was poor, and yes, Becky was annoying and somewhat dumb, where she seemed unwittingly clever in the first. It all seemed a little far fetched, and not at all charming like the first.

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