Shopaholic and Baby!
By Sophie Kinsella
359 Pages
5/5

This is the fifth Shopaholic novel that came out a few weeks ago! I think I sat in my room for 5 hours non-stop reading this book from start to finish. I would say that this is the best one so far, but.. that's how I always think. I always think the latest one I've read is the best. Overall, it was pretty satisfying. I think Shopaholic and Sister and Shopaholic and Baby both have more intense plots than the first three in the series.

So, Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is back, and she's pregnant! Becky and Luke have been married for over a year, and went on an around-the-world honeymoon in the previous book. She now has a job as a personal shopper in one of the newest, biggest stores called The Look (one of the most disastrous failures in shopping history) while she and her husband are looking for a new house. Luke's company, Brandon Communications, is going to turn them into squillionaires, if they keep up their astounding success!

Meanwhile, Becky has bank accounts all over the world (fifteen, to be exact) but hey, who knows when a bank account in Bangledesh will come in handy? If only she hadn't fifteen accounts and fifteen overdrafts...

Oh, the baby has his/her own account too. And.. the baby isn't even born. Huh. Well, at least Becky is being.. uh.. she's ahead of the game =).

Becky can't help digging her ears into someone else's conversation, about.. a celebrity obstetrician! Oh my gosh! She gets the number and.. uh.. books an appointment.. without Luke knowing.. but later, things turn out fine. Well, as fine as it gets when Venetia Carter, Becky's expensive dream obstetrician, turns out to be Luke's stunning, swishy-red-haired ex-girlfriend. Venetia seems to be going after Luke, but Luke keeps denying it. Becky thinks that Luke's having an affair with Venetia.... but, that does not stop her from buying Baby Dior suits for her upcoming baby! Or maybe even two...


I loved this book, and I think anybody and everybody who wants to read it should read it. Not that it's actually for boys, though (DUHH..).
BUT, this book links back to previous books a lot more than the other ones in the series, and that's where some of the humour some from. It really helps to read the first four in the series before this one. (Again, DUHH..)

*Jessica
*Would have been 78 hours
*Can be published in a newsletter