REVIEW: Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

The Book
Source: Bought
Publish Date: September 21st 2010
Publisher: The Dial Press
ASIN/ISBN: 9780385342049
Format: ebook
Pages: 293
Date Read: October 22, 2013

Description
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true a shopping friend for life! But it's trickier than she thought as two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping.
She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening. She hires taxis at random, her favourite word is Mine, and she's even started bidding for designer bags on eBay.
On top of everything else, there s a big financial crisis. People are having to Cut Back including all of Becky's personal shopping clients and she and Luke are still living with Becky's Mum and Dad. To cheer everyone up, Becky decides to throw a surprise birthday party on a budget but then things become really complicated.
Who will end up on the naughty step, who will get a gold star and will Becky's secret wishes come true?

My Review
I love the cover

Becky Brandon(neé Bloomwood) got on my nerves a lot. She's very selfish and self-involved in the beginning. Plus her annoying, incessant and unnecessary lies.

I wish there was more Luke in the book and Minnie is an annoying child.

I've read every book in the Shopaholic series now and this is my least favourite one.
Becky was too childish. I don't get why she kept on lying and was forcing Luke's secretary to ask him personal stuff.

Other than that, I enjoyed the book. its usual Kinsella. The perfect chick lit and humour story.

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REVIEW: Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia by Natasha Holme

I received this book for free courtesy of the author

Finished: September 07, 2013
Rating: 4 stars

The Book
Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia: A Diary On How I Acquired My Eating Disorder
ebook (mobi)
173 pages

Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia is a real-life diary portrayal of an obsessive nineteen year old lesbian, Natasha, whose internal homophobia, alongside infatuations with other women, bring her condemnation in both her gay and straight environments and drive her into a state of compulsive binge-eating and purging.

Edited from detailed, encoded diary entries, the story. begins in the summer of 1989. Natasha is obsessively, unrequitedly in love with her former teacher, Miss Williams, a love which she declares openly as a tattoo on her wrist. She meets Alex, a girl her own age, who questions her about the tattoo, revealing her own remarkably similar obsessive love for her former teacher, Miss Wilson. A romance blossoms between the two girls.
This is the first book to present a diary account of living as a lesbian with an eating disorder.

My Opinion
I've said before that I love memoirs. I haven't read any in the LGBT category so this is new for me.
I enjoyed it. It is fascinating and compelling.
It is basically snippets and fragments and is very informal but the author presents it in a way that works.
The diary flows easily and you're not lost in the details and it's coherent and understandable

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REVIEW: The Lily Branch by Carole Pitt

I received this book free courtesy of the author

Rating: 2.5 stars

"Elizabeth stared at Jerome. Even in death, she appeared to be posing for the camera."

The Book
In the midst of tackling her personal problems, DI Elizabeth Jewell investigates her biggest case, the murder of top fashion model Lily Jerome.
After a second body turns up on an isolated farm, Jewell searches for a link between the crimes.

My Thoughts
This book fell very flat. There was no excitement in the chase. It didn't feel right. It just didn't flow. I was terribly disappointed by the book. I expected better.

The writing isn't bad. The book is well written and the sentences coherent but I wasn't getting any feeling off the book. I was easily distracted. The details were
often irrelevant. Too much information that didn't add anything to the story.

Too much was happening and the end of the book felt too rushed.

It wasn't a terrible read but it could have been a lot better.

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REVIEW: Dead Before Morning by Geraldine Evans

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Read: July 29, 2013 to July 30, 2013

Rating: 2.5 stars

The Book
Dead Before Morning is the first book in the 15 book Rafferty & Llewellyn series.

Investigating his first murder since his promotion, Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty is dismayed that the victim is a girl with no face, no ID and no clothes, found in a private psychiatric hospital.
With the staff and owner of the hospital denying all knowledge of her, Rafferty has to dig deep to solve the case.

My Opinion
I don't really know about this book. rating it was really difficult because sometimes I liked it, sometimes, I didn't.

it's not a terrible book. I like the major characters - Rafferty and
Llewellyn. The book has humour, murder and a good mystery and tthe plot is very good but something put me off.

I didn't really like the writing. nothing spectacular about it. It could have been a lot better.

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