Having read 'Remember Me' by the same author I decided to give this book a go. Despite not being the biggest fan of babies I wanted to read the book to see what makes the author so popular. I liked the subjects raised in the book - some of the issues are potentially very real but I was largely disappointed, not by the story or plot lines, but how the book was written overall. Kinsella repeats a LOT of words -I swear I read the word 'Incredulous' over a thousand times. Her descriptions are vague as well. She also uses certain phrases that she repeats endlessly. In the end it got very annoying. I thought the last couple of chapters were very poor indeed. Kinsella writes good stories but I don't see why she has to make the character's antics so utterly unbelievable at the end. I also noticed lack of depth in certain characters and I realised the author had used the same names here as in her previous books. To me that just shows lack of imagination, and for an author so hugely successful and popular I thought she could have done a whole lot better.

I love these books, they are so funny. The things that Becky get up makes it for fun reading and at times we all need pure escapism. This series delivers just that. Just what we all need especially now.

Becky... Preporuka za lagan i simpatican odmor za mozak!

I checked out this book from our local library in hopes to try something a little different. This is the first I've read of any of the shopaholic books. I was aggravated by this book. How on earth could someone be so consumed with shopping and what other people think of them is beyond me. I don't think I'll ever understand. First off, Rebecca is impulsive and emotional. She's too over the top. Seems like every sentence she spoke had a note of excitement behind it. Honestly, I'm surprised she didn't have a miscarriage during her pregnancy. If it weren't for those raging hormones pulsing through her veins during this pregnancy maybe her thoughts wouldn't have been so cloudy. But I gather that this character is like this anyway.. pregnant or not. I won't be surprise by the time the last shopaholic book comes out that Rebecca Brandon had an aneurysm or stroke. I see why Luke kept her oblivious to his company struggles because she don't know how to take stressful news. And to make matters worse she was hell bent on getting a famous obstetrician, who happens to be Luke's ex girlfriend, to deliver their baby. Idiots! Luke needs a backbone at home. He should stop letting Rebecca run around like a chicken with it's head chopped off.

Not one of my favorites for sure. Someone needs to slap Becky and tell her to CALM DOWN. Geez.

2,5⭐️

I'm officially over the Shopaholic books. They are all the same, Becky never learns anything, and I just can't imagine someone being as self-absorbed as she is. It was definitely something mindless to read while sitting by the pool, but won't change your life or anything.

There is something wonderful about being able to pick up any book in the Shopaholic series and laugh out loud, forgetting about any other worries and escaping for a few hours. Sure some would say that chick-lit novels are a fluffy alternative to 'real' books and I guess they are, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun reading them. And that's what the Shopaholic series is - fun. The Shopaholic series also happens to include my future fiction husband: Luke Brandon. *dreamy sigh*

The fifth book in the series follows Becky Brandon through her pregnancy as she battles her "Red Headed Bitch" celebrity obstetrician who is trying to seduce her husband away...or is Luke willing going to abandon Beck and her baby? It is written in typical Kinsella fashion with brilliant laugh-out-loud scenes which culminate in a...false labour as she tries to confront "Cruella de Venetia"

During these scenes I think I fell in love with Luke even more when he finally confronted Venetia.

Shopaholic and Baby is another wonderfully light hearted instalment in the Shopaholic series and, while it won't win a Pulitzer Prize, it's well worth the read for anyone looking for a good laugh.

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed-especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery . . . to the latest, coolest pram . . . to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician.
But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky's perfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two . . . but are there three in her marriage?

I have never been pregnant but I would think when you are that's when you are most insecure. You gain weight, things happen to your body that you thought would only happen in a horror movie, and you don't feel like yourself. So, I completely understood Becky's feelings.

Also, I think I would be like Becky if I was pregnant with the shopping for the baby (the baby needs this is the best line ever).

And, I think the worst thing is having your husband's ex be some beautiful, successful, sexy, and thin woman.

I thought what Sophie Kinsella did was brilliant and I loved it.

There is such a thin line between "did not like it" and "it was ok", that makes you believe this rating system is not the best one. I'm saying it looking at this novel, which is not exactly pure garbage, but not good enough TO BE OK!
Becky is as childish, egocentric, overspending, liar, jealous as usual,(in fact she has the brain and manners of a young lady aged nine...) the plot is thinner, even Luke is dumber, as he does not want to know the child's sex, encouraging in this way his wife's unsteady appetite for spending. The book is far too long and as a consequence too diluted and only Danny's hit with the T-shirts saves it from the lowest possible mark.
So, Mrs. Kinsella, our ways are breaking up, at least when Mrs. Brandon is in our neighborhood...

VENETIA CARTER… YOU COW!!!!!

I really loved this story, too. I loved it because it played on the insecurities of any pregnant woman that worries about losing her husband to another woman, while their body just keeps expanding out of control. This story also finally tied up why Luke loves Becky so much, which I feel really hasn't been laid out as much in the other books. Sometimes I don't like how Becky is always under the microscope with her husband, but that's part of the shopoholic storyline. I actually grew to love her husband more in this story when its revealed WHY he loves her so much. The plot building up to the end parallel with Becky's pregnancy labor scene was sheer genius. Sophie Kinsella always manages to weave all the characters together at the crescendo of her plot to where it's actually believable without the feeling of being contrived. Say what you will naysayers regarding the "Chick-Lit," genre, but this is the most fun I've had in reading books since Morag Prunty's "Poison Arrows."

this was my favorite of the whole series. partly because she doesn't do anything completely ridiculous, and you can see that she is learning and growing and communicating more, even if it's not as much as she should. i seriously love how becky and suze refer to people they don't like as "cows". maybe it's an english thing, but it seems like such a random choice of words. even though all along you know how kind hearted, fun and well meaning becky is, i love how it comes out even more in this book. i am a forever hopeless romantic, so i love the many becky and luke moments in this book, and i LOVE the end. i love that becky has grown and matured, but is still the same old becky who loves to shop, and always will. and i love that she is a mom.