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    Shoe Addicts Anonymous
    Shoe Addicts Anonymous
    Shoe Addicts Anonymous
    Audiobook8 hours

    Shoe Addicts Anonymous

    Written by Beth Harbison

    Narrated by Orlagh Cassidy

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Four different women. One common shoe size. And a shared lust for fabulous footwear. In this sparkling novel, the wife of a controlling politician, a debt-ridden eBay addict, an agoraphobic phone sex operator, and a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out of the house) meet Tuesday nights to trade shoes, and, in the process, form friendships that will help them each triumph over their problems—from secret pasts to blackmail, bankruptcy, and dating. Funny, emotional, and powerful, Shoe Addicts Anonymous is the perfect summer listen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJun 12, 2007
    ISBN9781427201034
    Shoe Addicts Anonymous
    Author

    Beth Harbison

    New York Times bestselling author Beth Harbison started cooking when she was eight years old, thanks to Betty Crocker’s Cook Book for Boys and Girls. After graduating college, she worked full-time as a private chef in the DC area, and within three years she sold her first cookbook, The Bread Machine Baker. She published four cookbooks before moving on to writing women’s fiction, including the runaway bestseller Shoe Addicts Anonymous and When in Doubt, Add Butter. She lives in Palms Springs, California. 

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    • 5/5
      This book was so amazing. So exciting and funny hard to put down. Sad for it to end.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyable book! I needed to listen to a fun book. Also I'm a fellow shoe addict!!
    • 2/5
      I was hoping for something with a little more meat and less ... fluff. And normally I like fluff.

      The ending was incredibly heavy-handed and unrealistic. Perhaps I would've accepted Joss' business acumen if Joss had shown any sort of inclination towards business-y and entrepreneurial activity. Instead, the author seemed to throw it in as an afterthought. 1.5/5
    • 1/5
      couldn't get into it
    • 5/5
      The first book to Secrets of a Shoe Addict, but I loved the 2nd one better. It's a fun girly book, but I loved the 2nd one because of the all the shock value and just darn unthinkable funny things that happen to just these average girls. Listened on audio Orglagh Cassidy - Great
    • 4/5
      Fast, fun read. Enjoyable book for what it is.
    • 2/5
      I hadn't heard of this book before seeing it at the library a few weeks ago, so I didn't go into it thinking that it would be great or awful and it didn't offer me some great surprise when I realized it was neither. It's an okay piece of chick lit. It took me a while to get into it, which seems a bit messed up for a work in that genre. Chick lit is supposed to be mindless fun, and this wasn't.

      The characters were interesting, but there wasn't really any structure to the story. Going back and forth between four different main characters and having to remember each one's separate storyline was a bit too tedious. Sometimes a story with a focus on multiple main characters is a great thing, i.e. The Help. In this case, it felt like Harbison couldn't commit to who she wanted as the lead and how she wanted the story to unfold.

      I don't know that this story could have been better, so I guess my word of warning to anyone who has yet to read it is to not get their hopes up if they feel frustrated early on. It does get a little stronger after those first couple of chapters, but not much. Honestly, there are so many other chick lit stories out there that are so much better than this one.
    • 4/5
      Finished it this morning. Really enjoyed it. Just a fun read. yes it was bit how do you say that, where those things do not happen in real life, but I had fun non the less.
      Might want to get my hands on the other book by this author.
    • 3/5
      Nice fun quick read. Not deep at all. Some of the character's secrets were a little surprising, but everything wraps us so nicely in the end.
    • 3/5
      Shoe Addict Anonymous revolves around four women who are bound together by there love of shoes. Through a support group for women with shoe addiction these women find friendship, and girl power. Some storylines were better than others, and I did find myself extremely annoyed with one of the characters, Jocelyn. I started to skim through her parts because I wanted her so bad to get a backbone, definitely was frustrating. In the end I enjoyed the book, and was glad I read it, but don't expect much out of it. Pure fluff.
    • 5/5
      This is such a funny book! When girls get together this is certainly what I think about. This is such a quick read book. If you are this type of person, you connect with the character so well and you get hooked in the storyline. This is an read you can reread and reread because it is so fun!
    • 5/5
      I loved this book. This book is about four different woman who are in completely different places in their lives and with completely different status's with one thing in common, their love of shoes (well, except for one). This is about their journey through life and the support they give each other. This book is for anyone that saw something they just had to have. This book is for anyone that has friends they can count on no matter what. This book was wonderful, and addicting.
    • 3/5
      A delightful chick lit. The characters of the four women are very real and it's amazing how their shared passion brought them together to become firm friends. They bond over personal crises and each of them actually go through a life-altering event in the course of the book. Fairly predictable and I wasn't too thrill with the ending. But if you need some easy reading to wind down after a long day, you might wanna pick this book up. Even better if you are one who love shoes and women's friendship novels!
    • 4/5
      This is the typical, generic, chick-lit that one would expect when picking this up. That is not bad thing. It's an enjoyable tale of four women with an obsession for shoes (well, 3 of them). This is nothing revolutionary, but it is the perfect beach read or pick-me-up to any woman's day.
    • 4/5
      I wasn't going to pick this book up because shoes aren't that interesting to me but I'm glad I did. It's about 4 women, all with different problems going on in their lives, who meet every Tuesday to swap shoes and stories of what's going on in their lives. All four become good friends. the ending was perfect.
    • 4/5
      Very cute and fun, great characters and a story line that, while a bit predictable, keeps you well-entertained. This would be 4 stars, but there were a LOT of typos in my edition - names wrong, misspellings, mistakes about things that previously occurred... another novel that would benefit from a more on-the-ball editor. Beyond that, though, I really enjoyed it - and the book cover was covered in gorgeous, gorgeous shoes, which is just awesome.