These books are seriously addicting. I know the main complaint people have about these books is how annoying Bex can be, but I don't mind her. She has her moments where I would like to smack some sense into her, but overall I like her funny, awkward moments.


Bex is basically running around like a chicken with her head cut off throughout this whole book. She has promised both her mother and her mother-in-law that they could plan her wedding, and nobody knows...Not even Luke. Also, both weddings a More...

One of the best chick-lit series I've read! Becky Bloomwood is a delight and adorable! She has her issues, of course, but somehow you can't help loving her! Part of what makes these books so funny and cute is the ability Becky has to justify every purchase she makes. And her shopaholic problems aside, she's a sweet, kind and big-hearted person.

My sister and I were actually able to go to an author talk with Sophie Kinsella, and she's just as adorable as Becky!

So far there are 5 books in the seri More...

I love Kinsella's books, and I loove Becky, but this one was my least favorite. The way she had to drag on the wedding decision totally wore out my patience. What sucked was that THAT was basically the main part of the story. At some point, I was so irritated at her that I wasn't really concentrating on what I was reading because I wanted to hurry up and get to the conclusion. And it's too silly how Luke was so unaware of the chaotic wedding planning, don't you think? Almost pretentious. I mean, More...

I've decided that, since I'm pretty preoccupied with wedding stuff as it is, what could be more fun that going through the adventure with an old friend? Hence, some of my joys and stresses will be meshed with Becky's--and I'm grateful for the companionship! :-)

I really wanted to like this book - I was planning my own wedding at the time and thought this would be an easy, relatable read - nope. This book was by far my least favorite in the series. I thought Becky came off too strong and annoying in the Manhattan book, but apparently she had a lot more "character" in her.

In this book, Becky and Luke are planning their wedding. Becky accepts Luke's icy mother's offer to throw them a top-notch New York wedding and has all the glitz and glamour Becky dream More...

Lucu..seger..jadi tau rasanya gimana jadi orang yang ga bisa nahan keinginan dan berusaha terus menerus untuk membohongi diri sendiri..hampir sama sih aku juga boros dan susah kalo pegang duit banyakan dikit..tapi tetep tau batas dan ga sampe ngutang2 gitu..hebatnya cewek ini kan dia selalu bisa nyelesaiin masalahnya dan tahan hidup dalam kebohongan >_< kekacauan yang dibuat bener-bener ga terduga hihi

Tentang penulisannya sih aku suka gaya nulisnya si Sophie Kinsella..beda dari yang lain.. More...

I think this is my favourite of the series so far. Still not that impressed with these books but it's a light easy read and sometimes you need that to escape the daily rutines.
Becky and Luke are still living in Manhattan and after Luke proposes (a very romantic way to propose, btw), Becky starts planning her wedding. And as always, being incapable of saying no - she ends up with two weddings, one back home in England and one in Manhattan. Two different dreams that she is unable to choose from. I More...

Well, I'm definitely glad Becky is off on her round the world honeymoon. I was so stressed by the time this book was over, I thought it would never end! Not as funny as the first two, there was just too much tension. I can't say I enjoyed this one a whole lot.

This book was somewhere between a 2 and a 3 for me. If you are in the mood for a silly book, it's all right.

fun book, but not my favorite in the Shopaholic series, July 1, 2008
I really have found the Shopaholic series to be quite fun and enjoyable. The character Becky Bloomwood is fabulous, witty, quite sweet, but a bit insecure with herself. As with all of the Sophie Kinsella books, it's fun and I found myself laughing out loud in some parts. I must confess that I found this book a little less enjoyable than the first two, but still quite fun.

I know Becky is quirky and loves to shop, and that's wh More...

Unlike Kinsella's previous two novels, the third is primarily about the relationship between Rebecca and Luke, with shopping being an unfortunate side-effect. Kinsella keenly stayed away from just reproducing Bloomwood's previous shopping addiction in this book (although they were never so far away that we forget). Instead, the author takes those same methods of obsession, justification, and splurges and redirects it to the wedding.

The novel is set in New York and Luke and Rebecca are getting ma More...

Despite the furrowed/raised brows and sometimes unbelievable gapes I gave to Becky's decisions and actions in the first two books, I found myself missing them in this third one. I'd made a mental note earlier that the author could do with more details on Becky's relationship with Luke and stop cutting out the juicy bits *wink*. Well, book three answered my prayers... at least as far as focusing on their relationship goes.

Becky's bestfriend Suze gets married, with the former as her bridesmaid. Th More...

Abridged audiobook.

I have read (listened to) one other Sophie Kinsella book, but it was not from the Shopaholic series. This was the first time I had met Becky Bloomwood. She struck me as totally divorced from the realities of life and it is this that makes her both endearing and frustrating. Bills for clothes do not become any smaller because you drop Tippex on them!

When Becky's boyfriend, Luke Brandon, proposes, Becky's mother is thrilled and immediately starts to make arrangements for her onl More...

Sophie Kinsella is one of my favorite authors, and the Shopaholic series my favorite books. . I find them witty, humorous, exciting, and so much fun to read! I personally find Becky to be the perfect blend of silly and intelligent. I find all the characters relatable and I think their flaws make them all the more endearing. Although I am definitely not a shopaholic, I could completely relate to the character and I LOVE Luke and their relationship. I get so into the stories I find myself angry or More...

Ho letto quasi tutti i libri della Kinsella, non li ho comprato ma li ho letti, e mi sono anche piaciuti. Dopo il primo si Becky Bloomwood, che mi aveva creato un po’ di ansia con tutto questo spendere, mi sono anche abituata, anche se i momenti alla Fantozzi non sono mai i miei preferiti. Premesso questo, devo dire che per quanto simpatico ed adatto ad un pomeriggio di spensierata lettura, il romanzo in oggetto mi ha un po’ infastidito. Un po’ come lavorare in un ipermercato nel periodo nataliz More...

Rebecca und Luke sind zurück in England, um an der Hochzeit von Suze und Tarquin teilzunehmen. Nichtsahnend erwartet Rebecca eine faustdicke Überraschung, denn Luke hält um ihre Hand an.
Für Rebeccas Mutter wird damit ein Traum wahr und sie stürzt sich prompt in die Hochtzeitsvorbereitungen. Nichtsahnend organisiert Lukes Mutter in New York ebenfalls eine Hochzeit – im teuersten Hotel der Stadt: dem Plaza.

Rebecca ist hin- und hergerissen. Beide Hochzeiten haben ihren Reiz, aber was will sie wirkl More...

Rebecca und Luke sind zurück in England, um an der Hochzeit von Suze und Tarquin teilzunehmen. Nichtsahnend erwartet Rebecca eine faustdicke Überraschung, denn Luke hält um ihre Hand an.
Für Rebeccas Mutter wird damit ein Traum wahr und sie stürzt sich prompt in die Hochtzeitsvorbereitungen. Nichtsahnend organisiert Lukes Mutter in New York ebenfalls eine Hochzeit – im teuersten Hotel der Stadt: dem Plaza.

Rebecca ist hin- und hergerissen. Beide Hochzeiten haben ihren Reiz, aber was will sie wirkl More...

Rebecca und Luke sind zurück in England, um an der Hochzeit von Suze und Tarquin teilzunehmen. Nichtsahnend erwartet Rebecca eine faustdicke Überraschung, denn Luke hält um ihre Hand an.
Für Rebeccas Mutter wird damit ein Traum wahr und sie stürzt sich prompt in die Hochtzeitsvorbereitungen. Nichtsahnend organisiert Lukes Mutter in New York ebenfalls eine Hochzeit – im teuersten Hotel der Stadt: dem Plaza.

Rebecca ist hin- und hergerissen. Beide Hochzeiten haben ihren Reiz, aber was will sie wirkl More...

Hopefully you've acquainted yourself with the spending habits (it's a sickness really) and rationalizations of one Becky Bloomwood in Kinsella's series Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan. In this 2003 follow-up, Becky is up to her old habits by the 8th page, where she finds a lovely antique trunk for her best friends Suze and Tarquin as their wedding gift. But why not also get an antique cocktail cabinet for her and Luke, a combined total of $800!

Becky's been living in Ne More...

It's been a few years since I read the last book in this series and I kind of forgot what happened in the last one. Kind of annoying when the book mentioned some characters that I assume we are supposed to remember, but luckily they where few and far between. The main problem with all these books is that the protag, Becky is somewhat annoying. I remember in the first two just wanting to scream at the book, JUST STOP SHOPPING!!!!! It was something I could not relate too, but apparently, all my si More...

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Becky Bloomwood wird heiraten! Wären da nur nicht die Mütter der Vermählten, die jeweils gänzlich andere Vorstellungen von einer Hochzeitsfeier haben als die andere. Beckys Mutter möchte es familiär, Lukes dafür umso presseträchtiger gestalten. Und schon sitzt Becky mittendrin.

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Kinsellas witzige Pointen und kleine Wahrheiten über das eigentliche Glück zweier Menschen rücken mal wieder die Charaktere ins richtige Licht. Ich musste wieder mehrmals über Beckys Erfindungsre More...

Becky Bloomwood has her dream job as a personal shopper at Barney's and is living with her successful boyfriend, Luke Brandon. She has everything she could want...or so she thinks until she attends her best friend's wedding. When Luke pops the question, she is unreservedly excited about getting married and regestering for her gifts. When both mother's get involved in the wedding planning, Becky ends up in a mess that involves two very different weddings, on two different contntents on the same d More...

I promptly read and finished this book after finishing the second book of the series.

I did not like this book. I think it's my least favorite out of all the books of this series. I found that I preferred reading about Rebecca's money problems rather than her decision whether to marry in New York or in her home country, England. I did like the starting, though. I found it sweet how Luke proposed to Becky by planting the ring in Suze's bouquet. I also love Suze! It's typically thought that proposi More...

Yesterday, although clear and sunny, came with a chilly biting August wind that the south-eastern part of Australia is known for. I have in my new house, a designated ‘reading room’ which is a little family room off the kitchen/dining room that has big windows. It has no TV access point so we put our second couch in there, along the windows and I made it my quiet room. The sun pours in there in the afternoon and it’s perfect for curling up and enjoying a book.

I finished this book in one afternoo More...

I can't help it--I totally root for Becky Bloomwood. She's so gosh darn plucky. And I love Luke--sweet, handsome, totally stays out of Becky's way as she screws up then fixes her life. Actually, now that I think about it, he's kind of very flat, but whatever, sometimes I just need a strong, smart man who loves his woman unconditionally (I'm looking at you, Edward Cullen). And how can we not love Becky's parents? Ugh, I want English parents like this (this is what I imagine all English parents to More...

Oh no! Oh no! What happened to Sophie Kinsella when she wrote this book??!!!
Needless to say I wasn’t really pleased with the third novel. The problem book series have, especially when the first two novels were really good, is that the reader is hungry for more good story telling. But unfortunately, with Shopaholic Ties the Knot, it seems like the author has lost her fire….OH NO!!!
Okay, what didn’t I like about it? Well, for starters, the plot seems really ridiculous. Becky Bloomwood’s character More...

Read the whole series this spring. I needed something light-hearted and funny, and these books fit the bill. What I liked about them: they made me laugh. I could identify with some of the rationalizations the character makes when buying things she doesn't really need. I loved her friendship with Suze. Her parents are a hoot, and she has a good relationship with them.

Things I didn't like: her boyfriend/husband is loaded, so after the first couple of books, there really is no consequence of her s More...

I'm not a big chick lit fan, but find Sophie Kinsella's work to be a real guilty pleasure-- slight but fun. However, Shopaholic Ties the Knot is definitely not her best.

In the other Shopaholic books, protagonist Becky Bloomwood, is ditzy and self-indulgent, but basically a fun and sweet girl that you can sort of identify with. In this book, that mostly goes out the window. Here, Becky gets engaged and is torn between having the simple English wedding her mother is planning and the big society w More...