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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
4.5 Stars!
I am so surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I've had this book on my shelf since I first started booktube, about 3 years ago. Being a political junkie and really liking the ins and outs of washington, this was something that hit all the right buttons. It was essentially the West Wing tv show in book format.
This book follows the first woman president on what seems like will be a normal day at the office, but then a tragic terrorist attack happens that shakes everything off-course. It follows several people in the senior administration before, during and after these events. There was so much going on throughout the entire book and it was very action packed. I was never bored reading it or wanted to get through a portion of it faster.
Content Warnings: Talk of infertilty and miscarriage, terrorist attack and brutal death, suicide bombers, dying in a fire, drowning, cheating/affairs
I am so surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I've had this book on my shelf since I first started booktube, about 3 years ago. Being a political junkie and really liking the ins and outs of washington, this was something that hit all the right buttons. It was essentially the West Wing tv show in book format.
This book follows the first woman president on what seems like will be a normal day at the office, but then a tragic terrorist attack happens that shakes everything off-course. It follows several people in the senior administration before, during and after these events. There was so much going on throughout the entire book and it was very action packed. I was never bored reading it or wanted to get through a portion of it faster.
Content Warnings: Talk of infertilty and miscarriage, terrorist attack and brutal death, suicide bombers, dying in a fire, drowning, cheating/affairs
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reads like an episode or two of Madam Secretary, I quite enjoyed it. Points off for repeatedly noting female characters' weight (to the pound, seemed weird), referring to Charlotte's kids almost exclusively as "the twins", and major ick for Dale, a woman insisting on continuing an affair with her boss's spouse, of all people.
This book was so good. It was drama-filled and quick to get through.
America has a woman President. This book tells her story and the people that work in the White House with her. Madam President faces a lot of hard decisions and she's constantly working for the peace of her country.
America has a woman President. This book tells her story and the people that work in the White House with her. Madam President faces a lot of hard decisions and she's constantly working for the peace of her country.
Would have been a four star review, but it started to drag at the end.
I have to say that this book is the best of the three. Parts dragged on at times, but overall I found it to be interesting and a quick read. Unlike the there, there is less of a chick-lit feel, but the President's relationship to her husband and Dale's to her boyfriend seemed contrived and bothersome. Having read the three books back to back to back, I noticed some consistency issues (characters names and roles, for example) that forced me to wonder if it was the same author. I also don't like how the chapters end when something big happens and we just see the aftermath. And otherwise decent story was marred by inconsistent and choppy writing.
Madam President was an enthralling fiction read following 3 female White House staff members on one of the most traumatic days of their careers-- the president, the Secretary of Defense, and the press secretary. I found this book to be very refreshing, as it follows female characters in high-power settings rather than their male counterparts.
While the writing was slow at some points in time, this book had me glued to the edge of my seat, waiting to see what would happen next. I want to go back and reread it already in order to catch some of the things I might have missed! 4 stars.
Shoutout to the publisher, Atria Books, for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
While the writing was slow at some points in time, this book had me glued to the edge of my seat, waiting to see what would happen next. I want to go back and reread it already in order to catch some of the things I might have missed! 4 stars.
Shoutout to the publisher, Atria Books, for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
For a book about women in power and a mass terrorism event it's incredibly boring.
I love reading about Presidents, real or not, and the library's app recommended this audiobook to me. I had no idea until after I'd listened to it that this is book 3 in a series of books about a woman president, written by Nicolle Wallace, of whom I had no clue who she was until reading some other reviews.
This book was good, but some of the situations were so convoluted that I could not suspend disbelief to really enjoy it. The author worked in The White House at the time of the 9/11 attacks and brings their insider experiences to the incredible story of FIVE terrorist attacks on American soil in one day.
At times, I felt like all these strong and capable women who are holding some of the most important jobs in the country were out-of-place because of their reliance and worrying about men so much.
I'm going back to read the other books in the series; maybe I would have enjoyed the book more if I had read the preceding two books prior to picking up this book. Publishers, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put book numbers on series books! You do it for children's books, so I don't see why it's so hard to do it for adult series books!
This book was good, but some of the situations were so convoluted that I could not suspend disbelief to really enjoy it. The author worked in The White House at the time of the 9/11 attacks and brings their insider experiences to the incredible story of FIVE terrorist attacks on American soil in one day.
At times, I felt like all these strong and capable women who are holding some of the most important jobs in the country were out-of-place because of their reliance and worrying about men so much.
I'm going back to read the other books in the series; maybe I would have enjoyed the book more if I had read the preceding two books prior to picking up this book. Publishers, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put book numbers on series books! You do it for children's books, so I don't see why it's so hard to do it for adult series books!
Boring. Another reviewer said it best... it’s kind of a book about nothing. A book about the first female president could have been much more.
I understand the writer worked in the WH on 9/11, and it almost is as though she used writing this book as a way to cope with that experience.
Disappointing.
I understand the writer worked in the WH on 9/11, and it almost is as though she used writing this book as a way to cope with that experience.
Disappointing.
An enjoyable, easy read. I like stories that involve or center around strong women and Ms. Wallace writes them well.