By: Sophie Kinsella Publisher: Dell Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Dell Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 432 Publication Date: August 31, 2004 Release Date: August 31, 2004
Product Description: There’s never been a better excuse to buy a new dress...or two. The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Takes Manhattan is back!—in a hilarious tale of mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, and one blushing bride who just can’t say no to saying “I do.”
Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: She’s become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattan’s West Village, and her new next door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how can Becky fail to notice that her own ring finger is bare? Not that she’s been thinking of marriage (or diamonds) or anything...
Then Luke proposes! Bridal registries dance in Becky’s head. Problem is, two other people are planning her wedding: Becky’s overjoyed mother has been waiting forever to host a backyard wedding, with the bride resplendent in Mum’s frilly old gown. While Luke’s high-society mother is insisting on a glamorous, all-expenses-paid affair at the Plaza. Both weddings for the same day. And Becky can’t seem to turn down either one. Can everyone’s favorite shopaholic tie the knot before everything unravels?
Makes you want to get married! I really like the Shopaholic series, very funny and enjoyable. The delivery was very fast and excellent condition.
Such a Fun Read!!! In, The Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Becky Bloomwood is getting married! Her mother and her (evil) mother-in-law are planning a wedding for the same day. Becky is having a hard time saying NO to either but knows that she cannot attend both. How will she save the day?
Hilarious! This so far is the funniest book in the serious. Becky Bloomwood is a more developed character then in the 1st two novels and why Kinsella plays up all the parts we love about Becky she also has toned it down a bit, which leads to hilarity! I laughed out loud to parts of this book. I can't wait to read the next one.
Fun Read! This book is another fun read in this series. I kept wanting to turn the page and keep reading to see what happened next which is something I love about a book. I like some of Sophie's other books better, Undomestic Goddess and Remember Me - but that said, this is a good read and I would recomend it.
A fun book, but not my favorite in the Shopaholic series 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 what I love about her, but you think she would have learned something by now. I am amazed with how many lies she tells and is unable to tell the truth. I found myself saying to myself, "Come on, how could anyone let it get this far", and frustrated as a result. Becky breezes through seemingly without consequences. I don't like the message that sends.
While some of my comments seems a bit negative/constructive, I still really enjoyed this book. I haven't found anything by Sophie Kinsella that I haven't enjoyed.
The Magic is Back!! This book was almost like "coming home" again. While I loved the first "Confessions..." book, I wasn't really crazy about "...Takes Manhattan", but with "...Ties the Knot", I give a hearty Bravo to Sophie Kinsella!! The Magic is back!
This time out, we find Becky Bloomwood still living in the US, employed as a personal shopper for Barney's NY. Her relationship with hunky Luke Brandon is solid and the book opens to Becky on yet another shopping expedition, this time for her best friend, Suze's upcoming wedding (to a guy that once fancied Becky, no less!). This is not the only trip the reader will take along with Becky, as she has settled quite comfortably in NYC. Before you know it, things spice up when Luke proposes to Becky and of course, you just know that she said Yes!
The time comes for Becky to start planning her own wedding festivities and she gets a helping hand, not only from her mother who dreams of Becky wearing her own old fashioned wedding dress and fixing up the house in Britain for Becky's big day, but also from Luke's mother, Elinore, being a big-time society matron, she decides to throw them the biggest bash, right in NYC at the tony Plaza Hotel - high society at its best!!
How will Becky decide which way to go? Of course, the idea of getting married at home in the UK makes Becky feel all warm inside, but the idea of the Plaza wedding spectacular is so tempting - it's great fun watching Becky NOT make the decision until the bitter end - that's typical Becky for you - she just wants it ALL!!
Eventually, Becky finds a way to save her special day and by the end of this story, you get to see how much Becky has grown from the original shopaholic into a woman who thinks and dreams, not only what's best for her, but for those around her as well. The book's ending is touching and poignant and leaves the reader, once again, wanting more & I'm sure, "Shopaholic & a Sister" will deliver - Great Read!!
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