I've Got Your Number

by Sophie Kinsella

I've lost it. :( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus' family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive!! :) A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls at a charity do and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she's lost her phone too. As she paces shakily round the hotel foyer she spots an abandoned phone in a bin. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number with the hotel staff. It was meant to be! Except the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back, and doesn't appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, phone messages and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents, can things get any more tangled?

• ISBN10: 0593059816
• ISBN13: 9780593059814
• Publish Date: 16 February 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 13 February 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Bantam Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[Bianca]

‪2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge‬
31. ‪A book that includes a wedding‬

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‬There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.

— This was kind of silly, but so entertaining +++ the romance was SUPER CUTE

[Sam@WLABB]

I am such a fan of the Shopaholic books and was very excited to read more of Kinsella's work. I am really happy I did. Kinsella is great at giving you fun, adorable chick-lit. This story centers around Poppy, who is preparing for her marriage to Magnus, when she loses the engagement ring AND has her cell phone stolen. As luck would have it, she stumbles upon a cell phone abandoned in the trash and this, is where the story really begins. This phone links her to Sam, and we get to watch their lives become more and more intertwined with each email/text/phone call. This book was a lot of fun. I smiled a whole lot and really enjoyed seeing Poppy come into her own.

[Joséphine]

Audiobook rating: 4.5 stars
Book rating: 4 stars

Initial thoughts: This book was so ludicrous yet hilarious! I was in stitches half the time and couldn't keep myself from smirking throughout the rest of the book. The plot itself is largely predictable, although there were a few twists woven in along the way. Overall, it was a splendid pick-me-up during a stressful week for me. Also, take-away point: don't ever cheat at Scrabble—it's not worth it xD

[Ashley]

I loved this book SO MUCH!! It was absolutely hilarious and Poppy was such a great character. I love how she made some pretty stupid decisions, but she was so LIKABLE. Usually I hate characters who make stupid decisions, but Poppy had this sweet, carefree personality. She always just wanted to be nice and help people, but it often backfired.

100% worth reading. I can't believe I didn't find this book sooner!

[Lorelei's Lit Lair]

I really enjoyed this one. It was funny, engaging, had me hooked, wanting to come back and finish the story since I couldn't read it straight through. Made me even want to play Scrabble ;) It had mystery, drama, comedy(lots) and romance in the mid/end. Loved the interaction between Poppy and Sam.

[Angie]

What has caused Poppy Wyatt to pose as a singing telegram to a Japanese business man and don reindeer gloves in April? Well, she lost her engagement ring, and her cell phone got stolen, so she has no way of being contacted if someone does find the ring. That is until she finds a perfectly good phone in the trash. Since she refuses to return the phone until she finds her ring, she inadvertently becomes the personal assistant to one Sam Roxton. Then she promptly ruins his life. Well, kinda.

Poppy suffers from "do before you think" syndrome, which makes her extremely unlikeable, but also gets her into some quite funny situations. She sends out lots of e-mails posing as Sam "trying to help" but really she get caught up, goes overboard, and gets Sam into all kinds of messes. It was a bit over-the-top, even for Chick Lit, but it was still fun to read.

I much preferred the second half of the book to the first. It has a slightly more serious tone as it deals with sabotage to Sam's business and issues regarding Poppy's upcoming wedding. Poppy and Sam find themselves being the most equipped to help each other work through their problems after having shared a phone number for some time. It was very cute watching their relationship develop. This was my first Sophie Kinsella novel, and I quite enjoyed it. The first half is probably a 2 star read, but the second half is easily a 4. I'll definitely be checking out more of her books.

One thing that bothered me was the footnotes. This isn't a fault with the book itself, since I like the fun extras that footnotes provide, but they do not work for Kindle edition. Clicking back and forth from the current page to the end of the chapter is not convenient, and reading all of the notes at once at the end just doesn't make sense. If you want to get the most out of this one, get a physical copy so that the footnotes are actually at the foot of the page. I'm sure I missed a lot by skipping them.

Read more of my reviews at Pinkindle Reads & Reviews.

[Leah]

I love Sophie Kinsella. She is hands down my favourite author ever. No author comes close. Yes, there are other authors I love very much (Paige Toon, Jane Costello, Ruth Saberton, Miranda Dickinson) but Kinsella is streets ahead. I have loved every. single. book. she has ever published. That is 10 novels that have all been books I can read again, and again, and again. So it’s fair to say that when I heard Sophie K was back this year with I’ve Got Your Number I was ridiculously, insanely excited. And when I saw it on Netgalley, I nearly screamed in excitement. Mind you, it was an anxious wait to see if I’d be approved (something in the vein of “Just HOW LONG does it take a publisher to APPROVE a request?!?!?!”) so when I was finally, finally approved I started it immediately (duh). Two weeks later (work, long story) and at 1 a.m. in the morning, I finally finished I’ve Got Your Number and OH EM GEE, I loved it.

It was tempting to let me review go something along the lines of this: “jghsjgbjfskgbvdlfjdk” because that is how I’ve Got Your Number made me feel. It made me giddy, it made me laugh, it made me smile and it made me fall in love with reading again during a time where reading has not been a top priority, sadly. Kinsella just has the magic touch, at least as far as I’m concerned. I never, ever worry that she will write a stinker. It just doesn’t happen. And with I’ve Got Your Number she’s on tip-top form as her (somewhat hapless) heroine Poppy ends up losing a very precious engagement ring, stealing someone’s phone (although it was in a bin and therefore anyone could have it…) and sort of meddling in the life of Sam Roxton, who owns said phone. As you do. Obviously. I mean it’s genius!!! Bonkers, a bit unrealistic perhaps, but genius! In a world full of technology, in a world full of mobile phones you do wonder why it’s taken so long for an author to go “Hey, how about we have our heroine steal/borrow a mobile phone and mess up someone’s life?”. It’s GENIUS! It’s ripe for comedy and Kinsella pulls it off effortlessly.

Poppy immediately becomes an instant hit, joining Becky, Emma, Lara, Lexi and Samantha as a heroine you love, a heroine you root for and a heroine you feel close to. And Sam Roxton! Oh, Sam Roxton… I admit, as much as I love Kinsella’s other heroes, they’ve never gotten close to Luke Brandon. I LOVE Luke Brandon. But Sam Roxton BEATS Luke Bradon! They’re somewhat built from the same model – a bit scary at times (particularly when angry/annoyed and I mean scary in a good way), with gorgeous smiles and witty retorts but SAM BEATS LUKE. I never, ever thought I’d say that anyone would beat Luke Brandon! It’s Luke Brandon! But I loved Sam. The way he and Poppy bounced off each other as Poppy constantly interfered in his life was just hilarious and sweet and lovely and it did mean that Poppy’s fiance Magnus did get somewhat left to the side, frankly. I honestly didn’t much care for any of the side characters, they were there to sort of flesh the book out, to stop it being just Sam and Poppy but I wouldn’t have minded the whole book being just Sam and Poppy, because the banter, the chat, the interference was excellent and highly readable and it did feel a bit of a wrench whenever we moved away from those two.

I’ve Got Your Number is just Kinsella at her best. She’s created such a readable novel, with such a convincing plot and the characters are just immense. Sam and Poppy are just brilliant. Yes, there are other strands to the novel in the shape of Poppy’s wedding, and her job as a physiotherapist but the bulk of the novel is Sam and Poppy and Sam’s mobile phone. The writing is up there, as it always is with Kinsella, and it’s just another home run for Sophie. She just can’t do no wrong and I’m so sad that I’ve finished it. I read it on my e-reader and I can’t wait for my hardback copy to dispatch so I can re-read it. That is how good it was. I can’t WAIT to re-read it, even though I have a mountain of books to read that is scary-high. Kinsella fans will lap it up. I mean, my review is pointless and should just read, “Read it” because basically, Kinsella can do no wrong and I’ve Got Your Number is Kinsella at her very, very best and it’s just brilliant. Just brilliant.