(4.5 stars) A book about finding a life you can live with even if it doesn't fit with all your lifelong plans

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	• The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2006 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 279 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Sophie Kinsella Fans read on!!

As always, Sophie Kinsella delivers! I love her work! Of course, Becky Bloomwood is my FAVORITE character. However, this story is a close second!

I WANT TO SEE THIS AS A MOVIE!!!

Excellent light read. Couldn't put it down...more than a 'beach book'...less than a romance novel. It's real people. I love the way Kinsella writes. Samantha's thought process when her life is falling apart is so realistic. I found myself thinking for Sam...only to read down the page and have those exact words fall out of her mouth! Great read.

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Great Book

Readers if you like Janet Evanovich Books, you will like this book. Sophie Kinsella is an English verison of Evanovich. It is funny, easy to read and very enjoyable. I would highly recommend it.Funn

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Good Story, Needs a Sequel!!!

I was really taken in by the story. It is a fun, light and easy read, definitely a great "escape". I think I read the entire book in 2 days! I really couldn't put it down.

Those are the pros...Now for the cons. (NOTE: SPOILERS INCLUDED!!! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! :) There are way too many loose ends that go untied at the conclusion of this book. The book closes with many of the subplots (including major ones) never even being discussed, much less wrapped up! There are several questions I would like answered: 1) What happens with Arnold? This should be an obvious one - Sam's story is supposedly all over the press. Don't you think a major corruption scandal involving London's best law firm and top banks would take precedence?!; 2) We never hear from Freya after her call to the Geiger's. What happened to her? She's supposed to be Sam's best friend!; 3) What happens to the Geiger's, especially regarding their "business purchase" that Sam helped wreck? I think it should've come out that Sam saved Mr. Geiger from a bad deal; and 4) For the obvious one, where do Sam & Nathaniel end up?

The sad thing is, that is not all of them! As soon as I finished reading the novel, I thought "where can I get the sequel?". Unfortunately, there isn't one (but it's not too late Sophie!!!! Bring back Samantha for us!!! :) As I stated earlier, it is a fun read but quite frustrating at the conclusion, which causes it to lose its luster.

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(4.5 stars) A book about finding a life you can live with even if it doesn't fit with all your lifelong plans

When this book was published I avoided it. It's a bad habit of mine-I assume that any great character in a first person book will just be recycled if the author writes another first person novel. So after Shopaholic I just thought that if I read "The undomestic Goddess" I would be reading the thoughts of a diluted or slightly warped version of Becky Bloomwood from the Shopaholic series.

I was wrong. Very wrong. My sincere apologies to Sophie Kinsella for doubting her talents.

Samantha Sweeting is a high powered corporate lawyer about to make partner. She should be on top of the world but instead her nearly 100 hour work week, equally driven (some would say obsessed) family and absolutely no social life is dragging her down. So when the blessed announcement arrives that she has her dream job and moments later Sam finds out she has made a major mistake that could cost a client millions she panics. And ends up in a house in the country applying for a job as a housekeeper.

But Sam can't cook. Sam can't clean-and Sam has nowhere else to go.

Thankfully the handsome gardener, his lovely mother help her learn to be a true domestic goddess and her clueless but well meaning employers give her the praise she's been craving her whole life. But is this life, stumbled into my mistake and based on numerous lies, truly what she wants or does she crave a return to her old ways?

This is a great story about finding your true self, figuring out what you want (or at least what you need) to have a life you can not only live but you can enjoy. It's a great reminder that everyone should take a step back once in a while and make sure that what they want, what they're trying to get, is still really the thing they want. That they need, crave. I didn't like it quite as much as Shopaholic but it'll be getting a permanent place on my chick-lit bookshelf for sure.

Four point five stars.

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