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A review by danicuestaa
The Brutal Truth by Lee Winter
5.0
This was stunning.
It basically was a sapphic devil wears prada where the characters of Anne Hathaway and meryl Streep eventually fall in love. BUT IT WAS SO FUCKING WELL DONE. Basically Elena Bartell (Meryl) owns a media conglomerate and acquires the newspaper that Maddie works at. Elena is notorious for acquiring media businesses that aren’t profitable, firing everyone, and giving it a makeover into a profitable business. Maddie is a Aussie midnight reporter who focuses on obituaries and is extremely homesick. They find each other in the most unlikely places where they both leave a poor impression on each other, but it was an impression nonetheless.
This story does not evolve into a romantic sense until we’re 50% into the plot and does some time jumps to follow the careers of these main characters but it was very well done in my opinion. I was just as involved in their careers as I was in their relationship. In that sense I felt it was so mature! not in a way that was particularly sexual but in the way that it evolved from companionship into love.
AND THE WAY THEY FELL IN LOVE
I just loved this, but was the slow burn almost too slow? (and trust me I have experience in this I’m a slow burn queen) actually yes, it was, but it resolved itself at just the right time.
So happy I read this!
It basically was a sapphic devil wears prada where the characters of Anne Hathaway and meryl Streep eventually fall in love. BUT IT WAS SO FUCKING WELL DONE. Basically Elena Bartell (Meryl) owns a media conglomerate and acquires the newspaper that Maddie works at. Elena is notorious for acquiring media businesses that aren’t profitable, firing everyone, and giving it a makeover into a profitable business. Maddie is a Aussie midnight reporter who focuses on obituaries and is extremely homesick. They find each other in the most unlikely places where they both leave a poor impression on each other, but it was an impression nonetheless.
This story does not evolve into a romantic sense until we’re 50% into the plot and does some time jumps to follow the careers of these main characters but it was very well done in my opinion. I was just as involved in their careers as I was in their relationship. In that sense I felt it was so mature! not in a way that was particularly sexual but in the way that it evolved from companionship into love.
AND THE WAY THEY FELL IN LOVE
I just loved this, but was the slow burn almost too slow? (and trust me I have experience in this I’m a slow burn queen) actually yes, it was, but it resolved itself at just the right time.
So happy I read this!