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  • I don't "get" Sophie Kinsella. I've read two of her books, and half read another, and in each one you know about 10-20 pages into the book EXACTLY what will happen throughout the rest of the book. Her plots are transparent. Kinsella doesn't have an original thought in her head. (She's no prose styli ... Continue

    I don't "get" Sophie Kinsella. I've read two of her books, and half read another, and in each one you know about 10-20 pages into the book EXACTLY what will happen throughout the rest of the book. Her plots are transparent. Kinsella doesn't have an original thought in her head. (She's no prose stylist, either.) To make things worse, she uses damn near the same plot in the three books I've read. She just changes names, locales, and situations. The basic plot structure is: girl unhappy at work, does something stupid to make it worse, girl makes ass of herself in front of handsome power broker, girl shops and gossips, girl and power broker have sex then fall in love, girl gets job she wants, everything is perfect.

    

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• ― Coilette said on Mar 11, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • Kinsella......what else could you ask for?

  • This is one of my favorite book. The story is quite surreal but funny. After all that's what you get with Kinsella. Surreal but pleasant books

    

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• ― Cmc76cms said on May 18, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • I finished it in 2 hours.

    

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• ― Cecilia Poon said on Aug 11, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

With the same wicked humor, buoyant charm, and optimism that have made her Shopaholic novels beloved international bestsellers, Sophie Kinsella delivers a hilarious new novel and an unforgettable new character. Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets:

Secrets from her mother:
I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur.
Sammy the goldfish in my parents’ kitchen is not the same goldfish that Mum gave me to look after when she and Dad were in Egypt.

Secrets from her boyfriend:
I weigh one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. Not one eighteen, like Connor thinks.
I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken.

From her colleagues:
When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day.) It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fact, all the times.

Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world:
My G-string is hurting me.
I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is.

Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.

But come Monday morning, Emma’s office is abuzz about the arrival of Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO. Suddenly Emma is face-to-face with the stranger from
the plane, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her. Things couldn’t possibly get worse—Until they do.


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