Why make such a change in story line and structure in this popular series? Only she can tell.
Title: Shopaholic to the Rescue
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Genre: Romance, Chick Lit, Humor
Publication Date: October 27, 2015
Review Date: July 1, 2018
Number of Pages: 368 (ebook)
My Rating: 2.0/5
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Book Blurb of Shopaholic to the Rescue:
Becky Bloomwood and a hilarious cast of beloved family and friends (plus one enemy!) set off in a van to find her missing father, last heard from in Las Vegas.
Becky’s father Graham and her best friend’s husband, Tarquin, have disappeared from Los Angeles saying simply they have “something to take care of.”
But Tarquin’s wife Suze who is Becky’s best friend, and Becky’s mother Jane, are convinced the two men are hiding something and are in danger—their imaginations run wild. They must track them down!
Hijinks ensue as husband Luke drives Becky, daughter Minnie, Jane, Suze and other favorite Kinsella characters across country from LA to Las Vegas in search of the missing men.
Becky feels deeply guilty about ignoring her father while he was in LA, in addition Becky feels her enemy Alicia is threatening her friendship with Suze.
Book review of Shopaholic to the Rescue:
A proper happy ending that was sorely missing from the previous book in the series.
That one was kind of a unfinished tale which is not the sort of thing one expects from Kinsella but she tied up all the loose ends in this one.
It isn’t in line with the style of the previous shopaholic books either, which makes me wonder why Kinsella chose to step away from a tried and tested winning formula in an extremely popular series.
She may well have tried such a different type of story in a standalone – she does have many
enjoyable standalone novels as well, of course, and they are all fun in their own way.
Why make such a change in story line and structure in this popular series? Only she can tell.
I did enjoy this books due to my love of the characters, but as Kinsella stories go, I did not especially like either the pace or the setting. Of course it was a good read, just not something I have come to expect from Kinsella is all.
