Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First, let me say that I am a huge Sophie Kinsella fan; that when it comes to chick lit, she is the best of the best. I own all her books, whether in digital format, hard copy or even hard cover. I recommend them to friends, and there's not a one who hasn't enjoyed them. So it was with great excitement that I downloaded this latest. Briefly, Becky, Luke and Minnie move to LA for a few months so Luke can better work for and with actress Sage Seymour. Becky being Becky, you expect her to get into all sorts of mishaps, and she does, some of them funny, some of them a little more perplexing. In the meantime, Suze and Tarquin and their brood follow Becky across the Atlantic, Alicia Bitch Long Legs (Billingsley) reappears, Becky's father plays an unexpected role, another Rebecca shows up -- and -- SPOILER ALERT! -- the story ends there. Right in the middle, with Becky and crew heading off to Las Vegas and into a sequel. Now I am aware that there are many books in the Shopaholic series, which can certainly be called sequels, but each of them is a self-contained entity with a complete story. That's the way chick lit works -- it ties everything up at the end. Which isn't the way my life works, but I read these precisely because they take me out of my life and because I WANT to see things work out (and Kinsella usually has some ingenious tricks to achieve that end). I do not like cliff hangers. As far as I'm concerned, this is just a cruddy gimmick to make me buy the next book. Cheap trick, Sophie -- I expected better of you!