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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
I can't finish this. I've managed to overlook the writing style that I dislike and the annoying as fuck characters and see some good moments. But fucking hell andrea! Your best friend is fucking in a coma, you don't make an effort to see your family or your boyfriend and for what? To be a slave to an absolute bitch in the hope that you will get to work for a big newspaper? YOU AREN'T DOING ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE WORTH WHILE TO A NEWSPAPER GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ARSE, QUIT THE JOB AND STOP RUINING YOUR LIFE. Jesus fucking christ how did I get so far into this.
As a fan of the movie, I wondered why I hadn't read this any sooner. The book is very similar to the movie, but I found it to be its on entity. The Andy of the book is a lot more in your face and a lot more likely to tell Emily how she really feels about Miranda. I enjoyed Lily in the book a lot more than in the movie since they reduced her character to a few scenes. Miranda in the book was pretty much portrayed accurately by Meryl. I enjoyed the book a lot! It was funny and witty. I will never work for a fashion magazine for many reasons.
Andy is so utterly unlikeable, it was so hard for me to have a narrator's voice that was so whiney and annoying. It took me so long to read it purely because I disliked her inner monologue so much.
adventurous
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I enjoyed the style of writing and how light and quick this was to read, however, there were many things that bothered me.
I didn't honestly think it was that awful to have to do several coffee runs a day, order breakfast a few times a day, set up dinner reservations, research restaurants or whatever, and run errands. Every single thing Andy had to do was at NO COST to her whatsoever. EVERYTHING was comped and thus she was actually making GREAT money to do what she did.
I kept hoping that she would grow up throughout it all... Stop being so whiny and ungrateful and start realizing that she really did have a pretty great job, especially considering her lack of experience. Her best friend annoyed me and her boyfriend was awful...
In the end, Andy was blamed for her friend's alcoholism (and what, pray tell, could she have honestly done if she hadn't had a life of her own?? She even tried to bring it up a few times and Lily brushed her off) and for her goody-two shoes boyfriend losing interest. Andy says she used to call him every single day, yet he whines that he had been trying to talk to her for a year??
Writing crap for Seventeen magazine is a considerable step DOWN since Seventeen is the teenage equivalent of Runway! It was absurd that Andy worked so hard for so long and then her idiot friends convinced her to quit and fly home because THEY were irresponsible. The ending was highly disappointing.
Andy didn't change at all, beginning to end. She was still as immature as ever, just like her "I don't know what to do, so I'll just travel Europe until I'm broke" at the beginning of the book! Is it honestly THAT hard to get an entry-level job?
Andy wasn't very likable and the whole thing seemed exaggerated. I never rooted for her to fly back home, I was angry at her "loved ones" and even more angry when she told Miranda off. I also don't see how exactly it was a problem doing the work she did to begin with. Say she needed a night off, was there NOBODY she could have had deliver The Book? Not even a messenger service she could pay $100 to deliver it? Could she not have told Miranda that something wasn't possible?? Or that she needed more information? Those who catered to her enabled her to be as controlling as she was, so they could only blame themselves. Not to mention that all of these "impossible" things like getting a book pre-release and finding a restaurant were entirely possible because of the respect the woman had earned all over.
Not bad for a fluff novel, but disappointing on many levels.
I didn't honestly think it was that awful to have to do several coffee runs a day, order breakfast a few times a day, set up dinner reservations, research restaurants or whatever, and run errands. Every single thing Andy had to do was at NO COST to her whatsoever. EVERYTHING was comped and thus she was actually making GREAT money to do what she did.
I kept hoping that she would grow up throughout it all... Stop being so whiny and ungrateful and start realizing that she really did have a pretty great job, especially considering her lack of experience. Her best friend annoyed me and her boyfriend was awful...
In the end, Andy was blamed for her friend's alcoholism (and what, pray tell, could she have honestly done if she hadn't had a life of her own?? She even tried to bring it up a few times and Lily brushed her off) and for her goody-two shoes boyfriend losing interest. Andy says she used to call him every single day, yet he whines that he had been trying to talk to her for a year??
Writing crap for Seventeen magazine is a considerable step DOWN since Seventeen is the teenage equivalent of Runway! It was absurd that Andy worked so hard for so long and then her idiot friends convinced her to quit and fly home because THEY were irresponsible. The ending was highly disappointing.
Andy didn't change at all, beginning to end. She was still as immature as ever, just like her "I don't know what to do, so I'll just travel Europe until I'm broke" at the beginning of the book! Is it honestly THAT hard to get an entry-level job?
Andy wasn't very likable and the whole thing seemed exaggerated. I never rooted for her to fly back home, I was angry at her "loved ones" and even more angry when she told Miranda off. I also don't see how exactly it was a problem doing the work she did to begin with. Say she needed a night off, was there NOBODY she could have had deliver The Book? Not even a messenger service she could pay $100 to deliver it? Could she not have told Miranda that something wasn't possible?? Or that she needed more information? Those who catered to her enabled her to be as controlling as she was, so they could only blame themselves. Not to mention that all of these "impossible" things like getting a book pre-release and finding a restaurant were entirely possible because of the respect the woman had earned all over.
Not bad for a fluff novel, but disappointing on many levels.
Finally. This was just the thing I needed to help get me out of my reading slump. The Devil Wears Prada is one of my favorite movies of all time, so I knew finally reading the book would probably do the trick. It amazed me how much it was different, and honestly I still think I prefer the movie. (But of course I’m biased.) Either way. Now I just want to continue and pick up all the books!
funny
tense
medium-paced
This book took me a really long time to get Into, then I just read in one long flight. Didn’t love- felt like a lot of complaining when Andie was offered such an amazing opportunity. Hard work pays off
I mean, this is a fun book to a point, but I think the movie actually gave the characters more heart and made Andi more human.
Admittedly, I think having seen the movie before reading the novel affected my rating of this book. I also think it was impacted by the narrator of the audiobook. I enjoyed the story and writing of this book overall and especially enjoyed the inner monologue moments of frustration, exasperation and bewilderment of Andy. I also liked that there was a much more prominent storyline between Andy and her friends in the book. I did not care for the narrator of the audiobook (Andy is 23 and this narrator sounded like she was in her late 30s). And while I know the book came first, I simply enjoyed the movie storyline and relationships better. Andy and Nigel do not have a strong storyline in the book and (spoiler alert) the parting of ways between Andy and Miranda has a different spin on it in the movie, one that I much prefer.