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emilyknap's review against another edition
1.0
I tried to ignore the reviews on this one but even for a bargain book I was a little bored and disappointed. It was a little hard to follow who was talking when and the timeline was a little crazy. Don't recommend.
lisaluvsliterature's review against another edition
3.0
Giving it a 3 star rating, because it's in my physical reading record I kept before Goodreads, but I don't remember reading it. My sister marked it as a 4 star, so I feel 3 is probably fair.
kirstena's review against another edition
2.0
Meh.
I'd probably give a 2.5. I didn't want to put it down, but I'm not exactly sure why. Moving on...
I'd probably give a 2.5. I didn't want to put it down, but I'm not exactly sure why. Moving on...
yangyvonne's review against another edition
1.0
Zoe was a bit of an outsider as a child and this led her to focus on why girls are mean to each other. When she lands a job as editor-in-chief of a magazine published by her brother-in-law, she thinks her message will have a real platform. Little does she know but his mother and many of the staff will plot for her failure. In the middle of this, she gets pregnant, her sister takes off around the country, and her staff sabotage everything - all except one staff member who turns-out to be the best friend she had when she was little!
This is chick-lit gone bad. Too many characters, too many cliches, and too many sub-plots.The premise was hard enough to swallow without the rest of the fluff! By mid-novel, I was rooting for Blaire and Sloane to succeed in taking Zoe down. This is like the Legally Blonde script threw-up on the Devil Wears Prada and still went out in public. The whole baby addition was unnecessary and detracted from what could have been saved as a plot.
This is chick-lit gone bad. Too many characters, too many cliches, and too many sub-plots.The premise was hard enough to swallow without the rest of the fluff! By mid-novel, I was rooting for Blaire and Sloane to succeed in taking Zoe down. This is like the Legally Blonde script threw-up on the Devil Wears Prada and still went out in public. The whole baby addition was unnecessary and detracted from what could have been saved as a plot.
beeyes's review against another edition
1.0
This book. This goddamn book. The only reason I kept the copy I rescued from a pile of secondhand books is that I have grand plans to go back through and mock it because, oh man. The main character is the most unlikable character OF ALL TIME (Humbert Humbert included), and barely competent as a human, let alone as a functioning adult and somehow managing editor or whatever of a major publication? She natters on about how women need to escape their social conditioning to be in constant competition with one another while simultaneously referring to every other female character as a "girl" and denouncing them as sluts or bimbos. I screamed a lot while I was reading this book. I threw it across the room a couple of times. I only finished it out of a sense of obligation. If this book was a person I would walk up to them and punch them in the face.
rosepetals1984's review against another edition
1.0
It really wasn't my cup of tea, and I'm not apt to recommend it to many people. I'm usually fair about giving books a fair shot, even if they're from genres that I don't normally read. I don't know if I absolutely hated it, but I definitely don't rank it as a good read. At least it was very easy to digest (I read it in about a day).
The story focuses on a rather flawed and seemingly quirky magazine editor who has a lot going on in her life, and she seems to speak in a dialect that's meant to be quirky and fun, but I found more often than not that it was quite cliched. I didn't like the polarizations of the other characters here either - they would have been far more interesting if it wasn't just a matter of dealing with "good" versus "bad" characters, and there are so many threads that are dangled in this book with respect to feminism and depression and other issues that just don't work themselves out by the book's end. It's so eccentric that it loses itself in those eccentricities is the best way to put it.
The story focuses on a rather flawed and seemingly quirky magazine editor who has a lot going on in her life, and she seems to speak in a dialect that's meant to be quirky and fun, but I found more often than not that it was quite cliched. I didn't like the polarizations of the other characters here either - they would have been far more interesting if it wasn't just a matter of dealing with "good" versus "bad" characters, and there are so many threads that are dangled in this book with respect to feminism and depression and other issues that just don't work themselves out by the book's end. It's so eccentric that it loses itself in those eccentricities is the best way to put it.
tinavenusreads's review against another edition
2.0
Okay, so I love chick lit, and judging from the blurb on the back of the book, it appeared that this book was chick lit. It may have been, but it didn't fit the formula. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. What was bad was the constant confusion I had over what was going on. First person narrative only works if you can understand what the narrator is thinking (and doing). Maybe that was the point, but the entire time, I'm thinking, what is going on here? You can tell that something is going on that maybe the narrator is missing, so the author gives you enough to know something is going on but not enough for you to figure it out. She won't give you enough to get a clear picture of the narrator's reality, which is really annoying. I really didn't like this book, and most chick lit is harmless enough to tolerate, but this was awful.
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