The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger

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Title: The Devil Wears Prada Author: Lauren Weisberger Genre: Chick-lit Rating: 7/10 # pages: 392 Date read: July, 2007

Summary: Most recent college grads know they have to start at the bottom and work their way up. But not many picture themselves having to pick up their boss's dry cleaning, deliver them hot lattes, land them copies of the newest Harry Potter book before it hits stores and screen potential nannies for their children. Charmingly unfashionable Andrea Sachs, upon graduating from Brown, finds herself in this precarious position: she's an assistant to the most revered-and hated-woman in fashion, Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly. The self-described "biggest fashion loser to ever hit the scene," Andy takes the job hoping to land at the New Yorker after a year. As the "lowest-paid-but-most-highly-perked assistant in the free world," she soon learns her Nine West loafers won't cut it-everyone wears Jimmy Choos or Manolos-and that the four years she spent memorizing poems and examining prose will not help her in her new role of "finding, fetching, or faxing" whatever the diabolical Miranda wants, immediately.

Review: Chick-lit and fairly enjoyable, but as you can see from the rating, I wasn't knocked off my feet. It was okay, but Andrea needed to grow a spine in the worst way. I couldn't believe she'd let her boss treat her like that - and CONSTANTLY. It'd be one thing if Miranda had at least some redeeming qualities, but there were none. Which made for a train-wreck-like book (i.e. you couldn't look away), but not one that could be labelled 'comfort book' by any stretch of the imagination. I kept waiting for Karma to bite back and it never happened, which left me with a terribly unsatisfied feeling.

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