I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella

Publisher: Dial, PenguinRandomHouse
On Sale Date: February 5th 2019
Pages: 448

The little  houseware store Farrs was started by Fixie's parents, and when her dad passed away, her mom and siblings took it over. The story has a wide group of loyal customers. But Fixie's mom is getting at age and thinking about selling the store as now is the right time to get a good price for it. But Fixie doesn't like this at all, as the store is important for the town and most important; it is her father's legacy, they can't give that way!
Everything changes for Fixie though when she goes to a local coffee place to get coffee. There is water leaking from the cealing, and just before the whole cealing crashes down into the cafe, a random guy asked her if she could watch his laptop for a few seconds. Jumping from under the water crash saving his laptop and herself. The guy, named Sebastian is so thankful to her that he comes up with the plan that if she needs something, she mustn't hestitate to call him, as he now ''ows her one''. She doesn't expect to fulfill this, but when her old crush Ryan returns from his not so succesfull time in the US, she want to help him finding a job through Sebastian. Meanwhile, some serious love sparks fly over between Fixie and Sebastian, who just broke up with his girlfriend.

The set up of the storyline  of I Owe You One was good at a first look. But the storyline get's lost in the situations centered around a main character that lets everyone walk over her. You would hope in the end she has progressed something, but that only came out in the part where her mom appoints her to manage the story after her siblings miserably failed and even played with big sums of money from the family business.
I do think though that book isn't Sophie Kinsella's best one, maybe the big hype around her books have dimmed a little, as you it is difficult to top over the succes of her Shopaholic series again. So without further ado, this book is nothing special. If you are looking for the same kind of humour of the Shopaholic series, you will not find it in this new book.