SHOPAHOLIC

Ties the Knot

Shopaholic ties the Knot is a romantic novel that was written by Sophie
Kinsella, there are several Shopaholic novels but this time it is about the
wedding of the compulsive shopper, Rebecca Bloomwood.

Rebecca is a girl who is famous around the world for her shopping
addiction, Rebecca has three rules when she goes shopping , you look at it,
you buy it and you take it home, ignoring the status of her bank account.
She loves her job, Rebecca is the best personal shopper in a New York Store;
She lives in an apartment in Manhattan with her boyfriend Luke
Her life was perfect until her boyfriend asked her if she wanted to marry
him. Obviously, she said that she did want to get married and she was very
happy to marry the love of her life... but the problem is the mothers-in-law, on
the one hand Janice (Rebecca's mother) lives in a rural area in Surrey and she
wants the wedding to be in the garden of her house and that Rebecca's
wedding dress be the same one she wore. And on the other hand, Elionor
(Luke's mother) wants a big, elegant and extravagant wedding.
And the problem is that the two mothers are planning the same wedding, but
with different styles, Janice is organizing a simple wedding and Elionor is
organizing an extravagant wedding.

Rebecca and Luke know they have to sit down and make a decision about
their wedding, but it's more fun to try out cakes, organize the clothes, the
color palette, and finally they leave the decision until the last minute.

The final decision of the couple changed all the plans of the mothers-in-law.
They decided that the wedding was not going to be in New York or in the
countryside. It was going to be in London, where Rebecca and Luke met a few
novels ago, they asked the mothers to organize themselves, they did not want
something very sophisticated, but they didn't want something very simple
either.
The wedding was the right point between one extreme and the other, and
Rebecca wore two wedding dresses, the one her mother wanted at the
ceremony, and at the party she changed the dress to the one her mother-in-
law wanted.
In the end, their wedding was perfect, and the end of the play suggests that
another book is coming, It ends with them celebrating the wedding, but it
doesn't close completely.

I believe that the novel expresses what it is to organize a wedding, the

nerves, the stress, the fun, the fear, everything, it knows how to convey the
emotions to the readers.

In my opinion it is written for young adults, or adolescents, I don´t see it as a

children's book, since it has a lot of text, and although the story is good and
hooks you, children would get bored reading it, since it does not have bright
colors or drawings or anything like that.

Personally, I liked the book, I found it enganging, it generates suspense

when you don't know what they are planning to decide, I thought that
because it was long I was going to get bored, but the dynamic of the book
make it hook you and make you want to continue reading to see what
happens, if they finally decide or not.

Karina