Becky thought being married to Luke Brandon would be one big Tiffany box of happiness. But to be honest, it’s not quite as dreamy as she’d hoped. The trouble started on honeymoon, when she told Luke the tiniest little fib, about the teeniest little purchase. Now she’s on a strict budget, she doesn’t have a job - and worst of all her beloved Suze has a new best friend. Then she receives some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky has never been more excited. Finally, a real sister! They’ll have so much in common! They can go shopping together…choose shoes together…have manicures together…Until she meets her - and gets the shock of her life. It can’t be true. Surely Becky Bloomwood’s long-lost sister can’t…hate shopping? A sister, a soulmate, a skinflint?
Leah: I suppose you can guess from the title that the books revolve around someone who likes to shop and while that is a huge focus on the first two books, it isn’t as in your face with the next two. Shopaholic Ties The Knot was mainly focused on Becky’s wedding to Luke and this one, Shopaholic & Sister, is focused on Becky’s new-found, long-lost sister Jess and the relationship she envisages the pair of them having. Yes, there’s still a lot of shopping to be done, but nowhere near as close as the shopping she does in the first two books. Obviously it would get a bit boring if Becky continually fought debt problems so these new problems and struggles make a welcome change. The letters from banks and shops and what-not are still interspersed between chapters (and are as hilarious as ever). I could wax lyrical for hours and hours about how fantastic Sophie Kinsella is. I mean, four books in and the books aren’t tired or getting boring, they haven’t jumped the shark in anyway. It’s a series like I’ve never read before. Not many books could get to the fourth book and still be fantastic and enjoyable reads.
Chloe: I hate to start off on a negative, but this is my least favourite book in the whole series. I felt that Becky having a surprise sister was one surprise too far for the books really, and I felt that Jess just didn’t fit in with the feel of the books, and so I had pretty much set my mind to disliking it unfortunately! Yes, there are things from the old books such as letters and Becky’s problems that are just as funny as before, but I remember reading it for the first time, and having to force myself to pick it up again which is unheard of with me and a Sophie Kinsella book. I’d happily re-read all of the series up to this and after it, but I am pretty sure I won’t be reading this one again, sorry!
Danielle: Truly, what could be better than Becky with a sister? You’d think it would be twice as much fun, but much to Becky’s dismay her sister is nothing like her and their relationship may be less than ideal. This was really a fun one in the series, because there were things I could reflect back on with my relationships with my own sisters. Granted, I think my sisters are quite a bit more like me than Becky and Jess, but it was still incredibly fun. I’m right there with Leah in saying that Sophie Kinsella is fantastic. Though I enjoyed this one in the series, it wasn’t my favorite (so far that would be the first book), but I still couldn’t manage to put it down. And how many books have that ability? Let alone, an entire series?
Since November 2009
When Catherine Lambert, an effortlessly chic Parisian lawyer, receives an offer to transfer to the New York office of her prestigious firm, she unhesitatingly accepts. A dedicated follower of fashion and everything stylish, she is determined to conquer the high-flying world of Manhattan law — and love. Catherine’s dreams of glamour fizzle quickly, however, when she is faced with the hard realities of her profession. The pressure of billable hours, the incessant demands of her impossible bosses, the conspiracies of two malicious secretaries and the advances of the lecherous client prompt her to question her career choice. But then she meets Jeffrey Richardson, a powerful client, and her New York life takes on the romance she’d hoped it would — until an unexpected request forces Catherine to re-evaluate the exclusive world she’s chosen for herself.
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