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Becky, to me, is a spunky heroine, and I just ate up these first few series installments (later on in the series, her antics became too intolerable for me - around book IV or V). That is, until she finds a financial story that really sparks her journalistic interest, and begins to spar with handsome and successful financial PR millionaire Luke Brandon. This is my third Kinsella book, and so far the women are always complete idiotic dip-shits that only barely manage to bumble through their careers while managing to make an ass of themselves at every turn. The book was far less cutesy than the movie as it made Rebecca (the main character) a dislikable character at first. Also, I’m pretty sure Luke Brandon was my first ever literary crush 😍 I watched the film recently and hmm… I would rather forget all about it, thanks.
Kinsella delivers a solid and laugh-out-loud funny installment that longtime readers and new fans alike will gleefully devour. Ms Kinsella manages to draw fun out of Rebecca's situation and the romantic element, whilst entirely predictable, is light and enjoyable. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.
Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. Loyal fans who have enjoyed Kinsella’s flakey protagonist in previous stories will enjoy this outing. Well this book is a masterclass in light-comedy tongue-firmly-in-cheek modern woman storytelling, I kid you not! A little unsolved mystery at the end may cause the paparazzi to swarm Becky’s home and leave readers wanting more. I read the first four books of the series when I was in my early teens so couldn’t relate to Becky AT ALL, but was addicted all the same!
But as the countdown to Christmas begins and her bighearted plans take an unexpected turn toward disaster, Becky wonders if chaos will ensue, or if she’ll manage to bring comfort and joy to Christmas after all. Sophie’s latest novel, Surprise Me, published in February 2018, presents a humorous yet moving portrait of a marriage—its intricacies, comforts, and complications. If there is a discount, my eyes immediately focused on the discount and bought goods even though at home there are items like that. And if that's not unbearable enough, in this one Rebecca Bloomwood personifies materialism---AND THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS THAT IT'S OKAY!But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare?
It’s impossible not to fall in love with Becky and her antics, and this latest offering doesn’t disappoint. The stories she concocts become more and more fantastic as she tries to untangle her increasingly dire financial difficulties.The thing is, for me, the story went about for too long before I managed to see anything other than the bling-bling obsessed Rebecca. I gave up credit cards as my solutions and it appears that she finds her own way to keep her credit and her life good by the books end. An example is when the story aims to illustrate how branded fashions can increase Rebecca's confidence. Take the caustic wit of Gillian Flynn and the comedy of manners of Edith Wharton, add a British accent—that’s Sophie Kinsella. Deep spirals of debt don't touch her very real compulsion because of the avoidance and rationalizations that come so easily to her.
moment for her, and no growth or anything in her character, and that somewhere down the line she marries The Guy, I decided to stop reading for good.That is, until Luke announces he’s moving to New York for business—and he asks Becky to go with him! In fact, it took so long to drive this to an interesting point, I nearly lost interest (which, considering how short this book is, says a lot). Red carpet premieres, velvet ropes, paparazzi clamoring for attention—suddenly Becky has everything she’s ever wanted.
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