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Inside The Cover
Book Reviews
Financially
challenged Becky Bloomwood is back. And
she’s getting married! In Shopaholic
Ties the Knot, the latest installment of Sophie Kinsella’s chick lit
series (Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan),
Becky has agreed to marry communications company president Luke Brandon.
Unable to say no to her domineering future mother-in-law or her
well-meaning Mum, Becky finds herself with two weddings being planned for her.
Luke’s mother engages a powerhouse wedding planner for an extravagant
affair at New York’s Plaza Hotel, while back in Oxshott, England, Mrs.
Bloomwood is planting flowers that will spell out Becky and Luke in the
flowerbeds and arranging for a caterer. Becky knows her mother will be crushed if she doesn’t get married in England. But it turns out planning a wedding at the Plaza is more fun that Becky could have ever dreamed of. Especially since her nuptials overshadow and then overtake the wedding of former archrival Alicia Billingsworth. When it’s a shopaholic planning the wedding, deciding on two of everything is just too easy, and putting off making a decision on which wedding to have is even easier. Until Becky realizes the wedding planner means business and it might be too late to put a stop to this wedding train… Anyone
who’s familiar with the romance/women’s fiction genre will understand from
the very beginning that the heroine will have her happy ending, but it’s
amazing how Kinsella manages to pull it off this seemingly impossible task.
Some of the machinations are next to impossible, but Becky’s so earnest
in truly wanting to do the right thing, it’s easy to suspend disbelief when
she finally comes up with a plan she thinks will get her out of this mess. Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic Ties the Knot is a roller coaster ride of cakes, dresses, invitations and more. What could be more fun for a shopaholic than having two weddings? Reading about how she tries to figure out a way to get out of one of them. Kinsella has written another laugh out loud funny book that’s wildly unpredictable. The plot moves quickly, and Kinsella ties all the loose ends in nicely. A familiar cast of characters makes it especially easy for readers of the first and second Shopaholic books to find themselves quickly engrossed in this third book. Readers just picking up Shopaholic Ties the Knot without having read the other books won’t have trouble following any of the plot; the three Shopaholic books, while considered sequels, can stand quite independently as well. Kinsella never assumes the reader has any prior knowledge of the activity in the first two books; she recaps prior events succinctly where necessary, jogging the memory of readers who have completed the previous two books and providing the necessary background on the characters for new readers, who will be delighted by the charming Becky Bloomwood and her well-meaning intentions that always seem to turn into financial fiascos. * Black Swan’s UK edition (2002), 394pp., was reviewed.Amy Brozio-Andrews is a freelance writer and book reviewer. She brings more than five years' experience as a readers' advisory librarian to her work, which is regularly published by Library Journal, The Imperfect Parent, and Absolute Write. Her reviews have also been published by The Absinthe Literary Review, ForeWord Magazine, January Magazine, and Melt Magazine. Amy is also the managing editor and an international markets columnist for Absolute Write. Visit her online at http://www.amyba.com. |
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