Shopaholic & Baby

Becky Brandon leads a full life of chaos and love. She is house hunting with her husband, Luke and is trying to help a new store, The Look get off the ground, all in the space of a few months before her baby is born. Her life is chaos, they are about to be homeless just before her baby is born if she does not find a new house. The store is a bust; she is looking for just the right marketing scheme to throw it into success. Add into all of that her pregnancy and you have one overworked, stressed out woman.

While planning for her new arrival she goes overboard in the buying department finding it hard to choose just the right “things” for her new bundle of joy. Her life of stress makes it hard to shop, yet she keeps finding new things she just has to have, from the buggy to the ob/gyn, she wants the best for her child.

SHOPAHOLIC & BABY is the newest edition to Sophie Kinsella’s Bestselling series. The books is part of a series, yet can be read as a stand alone novel, while not the first SHOPAHOLIC book this reviewer read, she has not read them in order.

This reviewer heard lots of great things about this series, with a few negative thrown in, and cannot disagree with any of them! Becky Brandon is an eccentric character filled with humor and love. She left this reader laughing out loud, shaking her head, and sighing all in the space of a few hundred pages. The downside to this novel is the lack of true emotion. This reader related to the stress and emotional chaos in the character’s lives, yet couldn’t seem find the deep down drama that should have been felt.

This is not to say this reviewer would not highly recommend this novel to readers of Chick Lit and humor, it is light hearted and easily devoured. I would read another from this series, and will be looking for the next novel to be released. Sophie Kinsella is a talented author who has managed to create a cast of characters that continue to grow and change, leaving readers light hearted and laughing each time.

April 2007