4 stars for Shopaholic Abroad / Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Shopaholic book 2) by Sophie Kinsella.
An enjoyable story though not as humorous as the first one. But still, a good one.
I must say, I can't agree more with the protagonist, Rebecca Bloomwood, on her point number three with regard to shopping abroad that 'Foreign money doesn't count, so you can spend as much as you like'. It is so not true but yet so real because that is exactly how I always feel when making my purchases in a foreign currency!
*** Favourite quote ***
Shopping anywhere is great—but the advantages of doing it abroad are:
1. You can buy things you can't get in Britain.
2. You can name-drop when you get back home.
3. Foreign money doesn't count, so you can spend as much as you like.
~ Shopaholic Abroad
Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Black Swan
Publication date: 15 Mar 2012
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For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money – a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York …and has asked her to go with him.
New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It’s just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she’s been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Anyway, it’s full of fantastic bargains.
Shopaholic Abroad – because there just aren’t enough shops in Britain.
*Blurb from author's website*
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