On a mission to try and complete the six book challenge www.sixbookchallenge.org.uk from the works library.
Read six books chosen by my library from different categories within 3 months, with the incentives of a free bookmark with first book read, cup mat with second and mug on completion!

Any library can sign up to do this or a variation of it from local libraries to prisons and I think it is a great idea especially when library participants are dwindling. Plus you get the added advantage of reading some books that may never have occurred to you before broadening your horizons.

So book number on is - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Rebecca Bloomwood is a financial whiz kid, living in trendy Fulham, earning lots of money and spends it like it goes out of fashion. This is what everyone else thinks at least, but it is only partly true..........

Rebecca writes for the paper Successful Saving and apparently knows far less about finance than others think, her apartment in Fulham is a shared flat with her best friend, she earns a reasonable salary but, yes she spends money like it goes out of fashion. Unfortunately this spending on high end "bargains" is more than her income and she has succumbed to significant debt, receiving demand letters from all over the place.

So how does she get out of this mess? At first she tries to spend less - never going to happen, then tries to meet the right people with cash to flash - not really happening, so get another job perhaps that's the answer?

****SO WHAT DO I THINK?****

This is a fun loving book which is easy to read with a feel good factor added in.

Rebecca is a great character which has elements of many of us in her persona, she loves to buy nice things but runs up debts on her credit cards. The problem is it gets way to out of hand. Although the story is light hearted in does have an under current whereby you can see she is trying, not very well, but is trying and knows what she should do to get herself out of the problems she is in.
There is a lot of unrealistic parts to the story in how Rebecca ends up eventually making some money but then if it was all doom and gloom it would not make a good story or be feel good for that matter.
Does she make enough to get her out of trouble? You will have to read to find out but the fast pace of the book gives details of each little hatched plan, amidst which you get letters from banks and visa cards to which Rebecca either ignores or creates lies to cover her tracks/debts.

In the end Rebecca finds romance and a whole new side to herself, a mature women of business that was itching to get out.

RRP is about £7 but it is currently on www.Amazon.co.uk for £5 roughly and anything from 1pence second-hand on Kindle it costs about £5 also.

This review maybe posted on dooyoo and ciao under the same username.