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"This expensive, glossy world is where I've been headed all along. Limos and flowers; waxed eyebrows and designer clothes from Barneys. These are my people; this is where I'm meant to be."
-Becky Bloomwood
Universally beloved by readers, Sophie Kinsella's national bestseller, Confessions of a Shopaholic, introduced the irrepressible one-woman shopping phenomenon, Becky Bloomwood. Now, in this hilarious follow-up, Becky and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic....
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to "pack light." But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces he's moving to New York for business-and he asks Becky to go with him!
Before you can say "Prada sample sale," Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury department stores.
Surely it's only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky's bills miles away in London.
But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan-but will she have to return it?
-Becky Bloomwood
Universally beloved by readers, Sophie Kinsella's national bestseller, Confessions of a Shopaholic, introduced the irrepressible one-woman shopping phenomenon, Becky Bloomwood. Now, in this hilarious follow-up, Becky and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic....
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problem seems to be tearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, away from work for a romantic country weekend. And worse, figuring out how to "pack light." But packing takes on a whole new meaning when Luke announces he's moving to New York for business-and he asks Becky to go with him!
Before you can say "Prada sample sale," Becky has landed in the Big Apple, home of Park Avenue penthouses and luxury department stores.
Surely it's only a matter of time until she becomes an American TV celebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of Gotham society. Nothing can stand in their way, especially with Becky's bills miles away in London.
But then an unexpected disaster threatens her career prospects, her relationship with Luke, and her available credit line! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan-but will she have to return it?
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Valerie C. (
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
As the plot thickens and the story works it's way through the book, I found myself enjoying it even more than the first. Becky's finding her way through life and it's enjoyable to read about.
Suzanne B. (
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Same book as "Shopaholic Abroad." More adventures of Becky Bloomwood. Hard to believe anyone could dig her way out of such shopping-induced debt, but our heroine is quite resourceful. This is the second book in the series.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I loved it. It's the follow up to Confessions of a Shopaholic and it was just as good if not better. I can't wait to go on to the third in the series...Shopaholic Ties the Knot. I'm hooked!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
While I was pleasantly surprised and amused by the first book in this series, this one leaves me wondering if the next 3 have the same theme - she digs herself deep in debt with obsessive shopping, gets out of it through some miraculous epiphany/deux ex machina (and a touch of hard work/soul searching), and then in the next book it all starts again? I certainly hope not . . .
Nonetheless, her lies during the downward spiral and the awkward situations she gets herself into are always worth a good laugh. And, deep down, Becky Bloomwood is a really nice person, a loyal friend, and a good daughter, so how can you not like her in spite of it all?
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I liked this book better than the first in the series. Becky was more entertaining, and the storyline more realistic, than the first book. I wasn't sure I wanted to keep reading the series after finishing the first book, but after reading this book, I'm looking forward to the third book.
Michele S. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I'm sorry but I don't "universally" love Becky Bloomwood. Sometimes I find her annoying and just sorry. Let's go to Manhattan. Let's go to Sephora. Let's go to sample sales. Let's just shop, shop, shop and pretend we went to museums and cultural places. Because goodness knows when we'll be back to the U.S. When I went to London about 20 years ago, I think I spent an hour walking around in Harrod's just to say I was there. I think I bought something because I still have the olive green and gold bag. But that was it. Nothing to rave on and on about. I guess I'm not a shopaholic. A bookaholic, yes, but I doubt there'd ever be a book written about that.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
i am totally in love with the shopaholic series. read this one in 2 days as well. you should read them all!
Shannon Y. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Funny lighthearted read! Great for a night that you just want to relax and laugh a bit! I definitely found this book enjoyable!
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this book is not something i would usually pick up and read. i saw some freinds reading the 1st book and highly recomended it, some i read it and was insantly hooked. i was thrilled to find out the second one was avalible. it is now one of my favorite books!!!
I have read Confessions of a Shopaholic and wanted more and that is just what I got. More fun, more surprises, and more laughs.
Barbara M. (Sorry girls, just couldn't get into this one. The first one was cute, but this just isn't my style. Also hard for this west-coast girl is that the story takes place in England & I totally cann't relate to anything in her life.
Chelle B. (I liked this book. I love the whole series, so I feel like my reviews of the series will sound redundant, but I just really enjoy them all. I like that when I first started reading this book I was afraid that it would basically be the same as the previous (Confessions of a Shopaholic) but it really wasn't. The characters were there, the humor was there, but it was a completely different episode for the Shopaholic series. I would recommend this book to anyone. My husband even got a good laugh when I would read particularly funny excerpts.
Becky Bloomwood is back....and up to her usual ways!! After paying of all her debts in book 1 she moves to NYC with her boyfriend Luke and discovers.....well New York (IE the shopping capital of the world.....well at least one of them) She also discovers another thing no shopaholic can possibly resist.... Sample sales!!! So, in just a short time Becky is back into spending mode diving head first into New York's world renowned Designer Botiques, Chic Department stores, Posh beauty supply stores, & well basically anything else that has a cash register is fare game as far as Becky is concerned. And as any shopaholic has experienced; after the highs of buying well... pretty much everything that catches your eye...eventually you come down off that high...and crash hard..... Same laugh out loud humor as in the 1st shopaholic....and definitly just as good a read!! Loved it!!
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