Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella- Reading from 'Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic #1)' from November 1st 2017

[Alaina]

Sorry I'm reading these so fast! My loans for the ebooks are almost up I have the next two due in 5 days. After I read those I can totally wait for you to catch up before I read the last two!

[Alaina]

Chapters 1-5: (view spoiler)[Okay so Becky is of course freaking out about the baby and how she hasn't exactly shopped for the baby. I'm pretty sure she wanted to know the gender but then Luke stepped in and said they wanted to be surprised. He also said the baby doesn't need everything which just made me laugh because I mean he knows who he marries right?!? He knows that she is completely 100% of the time addicted to shopping, right?! I can't wait to laugh my ass off in this book and I have a suspicious feeling I might end up jealous of this baby and what Rebecca ends up buying their child. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 6-10: (view spoiler)[Oh man, Rebecca is jealous as fuck. I mean who wouldn't be jealous of their husband hanging out 24/7 with one of their exes?!? I don't know how Rebecca is going to handle all of this information. I mean clearly she's upset but Luke doesn't see it. I just wonder if she's going to do something crazy - knowing her she probably will. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 11-15: (view spoiler)[Oh man!! The ex is an evil evil bitch. I can't believe she was actually making a move on Luke and how the hell is this guy so fucking naive?!?! UGH! sometimes Luke just frustrates the hell out of me! Seriously, Becky deserves way better sometimes and that makes me sad and scared for her. I wonder what's going to happen next in their marriage, in her life, and is the baby okay?!? So many questions! But right now I'm so on board with her divorcing his ass. (hide spoiler)]

Ugh my laptop is about to die and I don't know where the charger is!!! I will upload the other comments once I find it!

[Alaina]

Chapters 16-20: (view spoiler)[WOW WOW WOW! The ex Venetia is such a cow. I honestly was laughing at how many times they all called her that or how everyone just ganged up on her and was saying how amazing Becky is for Luke. Which I'm proud he finally fucking noticed what the hell was going on. GODDAMN it took way too long for him to figure out that Rebecca was telling the truth. Seriously, why can't guys just realize that sometimes we do tell the truth and their ex really is trying to get back with them.. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 21- , aka..
Finished: (view spoiler)[OMG! I am in love with the babies name! I love Minnie Brandon! It's so freaking adorable! And of course Rebecca is already gonna go crazy spending money on her little baby girl now. I mean they are sort of saving money now that Luke and her live with her parents. I wonder if they are going to have their own place in the next book. I wonder how old the baby is going to be in the next book?!? IS MINNIE GOING TO BE A MINI BECCA?!?! I'm so pumped for the next book. (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina]

Chapters 1-5: (view spoiler)[Okay! I feel like I should definitely mention how freaking adorable Minnie is. I also feel like I should talk about how hilarious this mother-daughter relationship is already. I mean Minnie is two years old and she already is basically the boss of her mom. Although it doesn't really help that Rebecca is back to unnecessarily spending money on things she nor Minnie really need. Other than spending a ton of money on Christmas gifts for everyone I don't think she should spend that much. I'm kind of excited to see how Luke's birthday is going to play out but I'm also hoping something disastrous happens too. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 6-10: (view spoiler)[Honestly the letters she gets back from the people she has previously written to just keep getting better and better. They are so god damn funny I pretty much laugh the whole time reading them. Other than that I feel like this party planning is going way out of hand. I also think its funny when she was talking about having too many clothes. It definitely reminded me of the movie scene from Confessions of a Shopaholic where Suze tells Bex to declutter her room and to get rid of her clothes.. but instead of getting rid of them she puts them in those seal-able bags and sucks the air out of them with the vacuum. Either way I laughed. I'm just casually waiting for the other shoe to drop and for Rebecca to try and get out of some silly situation. Plus I really need more adorableness from Minnie right now! (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 11-15: (view spoiler)[Omg so Nanny Sue is like Super Nanny because she has her own show and does assessments on the little kids and their family. Highly laughable but I mean Minnie is two years old and of course Rebecca will let her do or have anything she wants. Hell Luke isn't all that much better when he's usually at work. idk I feel kind of bad for Luke and Rebecca's mom because she doesn't like what they had said to her (which has to deal with Minnie) and so she sort of stopped talking to them. Kind of ridiculous but then again it is Rebecca we are talking about. I am still waiting on this whole Luke's party shiznit. Can't wait to read about that happening.. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 16-20: (view spoiler)[bahahahaha so Luke has had some idea of what Rebecca has been planning all along. I could totally see all of that happening too. I also really like how in this one there wasn't really someone else trying to go after Luke too or him being so completely naive about it. I'm almost freaking done and I can't wait to finish this book!! (hide spoiler)]
Chapter 21, aka..
Finished: (view spoiler)[What a cute ending to a cute book. I loved everything about it. I love how there was no one trying to get in between Rebecca and Luke's marriage. I like how Elinor was back and more in the picture (especially with Rebecca and Minnie). I just really liked this book - and I probably liked it a hell of a lot more than I did the first time. I can't wait to dive into the next book in this series and read about all the crazy shenanigans that Becky does. (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina]

Chapters 1-5: (view spoiler)[I'm already laughing so much at this book. So now Luke and Rebecca are moving to LA which I can already see a bunch of crazy shit going to happen. Also, what's highly hilarious is Becky signing up for a marathon. Yeah, that just sounds disastrous already. Can't wait to read what will happen next. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 6-10: (view spoiler)[Alicia is back and she's married to the founder of Golden Peace which makes me oddly suspicious since Luke brought up that place to Becky saying she needs rehab for her shopping addiction. I wonder how that's all going to work because in all honesty homegirl really needs some help. I'm also kind of annoyed how she assumes everyone just wants to talk about fashion. It could just be me though. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 11-15: (view spoiler)[Okay wow a lot has happened. SO I'm actually starting to like Alicia, idk she just doesn't seem to be her usual bitchy self. I wish she was more in this book though - like I could totally handle more scenes/chapters with her. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 16-20: (view spoiler)[Then there's Becky who is now a "star" which I guess is okay but I don't really care because she always finds herself, or I guess puts herself, into sticky situations, like always lying to Luke. She really needs to stop lying to people when she gets in certain situations, or at all, because she's really hurting herself and losing their trust in a way. I really like her and luke and I'm just kind of getting annoyed that in every book she ends up lying to him and then he finds out and just accepts it.
Also, I'm going to mention that Becky is really self-centered.
Now I've always known this but man she really needs to put her friends and her husband first sometimes. I get that it's her dream job and everything but I mean no one is happy with her. I'm not even happy with her. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 21-23, aka..
Finished: (view spoiler)[uhh the ending was kind of weird. idk how I feel about this book. I might lower my star rating from the first time I read this book. idk I just don't think this book was for me. I'm still going to read the next book though and then be done with this series. (hide spoiler)]

[Alaina]

Chapters 1-4: (view spoiler)[So ever since the last book Suze has sort of started to get on my nerves. I don't know what happened to her or why she has suddenly changed throughout this series but god damn is this woman annoying as fuck. I really like how much Becky has changed though because she has never resisted a discount or not gone shopping before and I'm so proud of her. She's being a lot smarter with her money and I really like that. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 5-8: (view spoiler)[I love this version of Becky she's back to being hilarious again. Although I've never been to Las Vegas myself, I would probably go shopping than gamble - and I don't even like to shop unless it's for food and books. I need more of this funny side of Becky than anything. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 9-12: (view spoiler)[Starting this comment off with Minnie because that kids is freaking adorable. When she was with the sheep I couldn't stop laughing. I love this kid and I wish this was real or that the movies kept going and I would've been able to see Minnie play out. Then Suze's craziness sort of makes sense but I still don't approve of her acting like a bitch towards Becky. Whatever, their friendship drama is no more - I just don't want anymore crazy Suze. The whole "cheating" scandal definitely threw me for a loop though. I never would have imagined her cheating on her husband - just didn't get that vibe from their relationship. idk I'm weird. I wonder what's going to happen next.. (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 13-16: (view spoiler)[Okay I was a little confused with these chapters. I just don't really understand the whole situation with her dad and everything. Also I loved how her mom reacted when she spoke to him yelling at him because she thought he was dead and his response was .."well I did say I had a little errand to run" like that would fix this mess. Men are idiots. I feel like I haven't mentioned Alicia once in these comments but let me just say that I still don't like that bitch. I'm so close to finishing this book and series and I wonder how it's going to end! (hide spoiler)]
Chapters 17-19, aka..
Finished: (view spoiler)[Wow what an ending. I'm so happy that I found the time to reread this series. I enjoyed it a lot more the second time around and I have no idea why. I'm proud of Becky and I'm happy that she gets to shop again. Becky wouldn't be herself if she wasn't allowed to shop anymore. Also that wedding seemed to be way over the top, at least to me, but then again it is Las Vegas and it is Becky. So I'm not really surprised or shocked about it at all. (hide spoiler)]

[Monika]

Alaina wrote: "Sorry I'm reading these so fast! My loans for the ebooks are almost up I have the next two due in 5 days. After I read those I can totally wait for you to catch up before I read the last two!"

Great Alaina ... I anyways could never have caught up with you especially as i was on vacations since 10th Nov.

[Monika]

Chapter 11 Done (view spoiler)[why she acts like a total looser. She is reacting stupid in all the situations... she lost completely in Being Frugal infact spent more... she was totally insane for hiding the zebra pants from the client. And finally I thought she might act normal around Luke, she just spoke out loud that she is hurt to know Luke has a girlfriend. Could she not simply have finished lunch n moved on nicely.

M not a fan of d story so far coz it’s all about this crazy dumbo (hide spoiler)]

chapter 18 Done (view spoiler)[Finally this girl has done something sensible.... the article in daily world n answering back Luke Brandon (hide spoiler)]

chapter 22 Done (view spoiler)[well now m kinda liking Bex finally ... what a show up against Luke n the question answers on phone. And conversation with Derek was the right thing finally she did. She knows a lot but it’s just that she is running n nothing else. (hide spoiler)]

Finished (view spoiler)[Okay, So this was a different story actually so to speak. I was not expecting this book to be talking about a looser all the way up-to 80% of the book.

If I were to talk about positives of this book then I would surely say this is Funny. Very nice writing style by author. What i dint like was the maturity of the character Becky which has nothing to do with the book but of-course the story is about her. Story revolves around this girl called Becky who is a financial journalist however she is in a total mess as far as her personal finances are concerned. She is a gone case of a total hopeless shopaholic. But towards the end she starts to follow her fathers rule of MMM-Make More Money!!! And things start to get better but that actually happens after 85% of the book. (hide spoiler)]

All in all a light fun read!!!

[Monika]

Chapter 3 Done (view spoiler)[ Ok so our Becky has got better earnings now and nice TV job which she likes and it takes out best of her knowledge. However she is still a gone case in terms of shopping. I liked her finally getting along with Luke. Looking forward for their trip now let’s see. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 7 Done (view spoiler)[ Bex is gonna be in trouble since sweetie smeathie is moving out of he bank and new guy does not seems to be nice to her as per the letters ... 20 Pounds charged for the letter she sent ... REALLY?

The wedding of Tom n Lucy was a horrible scene all together. But that goodness Luke showed up finally. Now they are moving to New york but something is wrong with Alicia here ... she seems to have stollen something from Mel's desk and That funny call Becky got about her trip n all ... she should not have answered all those questions which actually speaking a travel agent must be knowing instead of asking (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 11 Done (view spoiler)[Honestly speaking Bex is a hopeless case. She really can't get over her non sense shopping n behaviour. Why the hell on earth she started to serve in the Charity Lunch. Some things in these books is really unreal like. Sorry ... Cant digest!!! (hide spoiler)]

[Monika]

Just a disclaimer while I am still reading Book 2 that i will not be reading this series anything beyond Book 2 .... Dint find the series my cup of tea ... Like m really not enjoying at all.

[Alaina]

Monika wrote: "Just a disclaimer while I am still reading Book 2 that i will not be reading this series anything beyond Book 2 .... Dint find the series my cup of tea ... Like m really not enjoying at all."

yeah that's how I felt when I first read this series.

[Monika]

Chapter 14 Done We have a saying here in India its in Hindi n Punjabi language but to put it straight in English it would be like "The village has not established yet but the thieves have already come to rob it" ... So i Becky doing to her unestablished career. (view spoiler)[ Becky has totally blown it with her stupid shopping a NY .... what the hell is it to buy so much unnecessarily n what with the bloody expensive dress.

Well she has lost everything ... M keen to see how she recovers. Better if she does in this book itself coz m not reading book 3 at all for a few years atlas XD (hide spoiler)]

[Monika]

Finished -- Review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...