emjay24 's review for:

How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls by Zoey Dean

3.0

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I haven’t read a chick lit type book in a very long time, and it really is just junk food candy for the brain. A 23 year old recent Yale grad is barely making her way in NYC. She is a writer, but doesn’t get the job she wants, and when she is fired from her tabloid magazine job (which actually sounded pretty cool to me!), and has no place to live and even no clothes, all due to a fire, she ends up in Florida trying to tutor 17 year old heiresses. I don’t like Megan. She is always blaming other people for being better than her, like her sister, or the rich people, or her boyfriend for his job, etc. I was horrified when she decided to write an expose of the very people who were befriending her. I won’t tell you the ending but I can say it’s very predictable. This whole story would never have happened nowadays, even though it’s not too far in the past. The twins “do a google search” on Megan and think she’s someone else, when nowadays they could see her photo or just look at her facebook, Instagram, etc., which would have caused half the things in the book to not even happen. At one point someone fed exes an article, and I thought, why not just scan it over? It’s always so intriguing how technology and time can be so important, even in a fluff piece like this. While I did not like Megan, and the characters were all cliché, I did like the twins, and it was a fun and fast read.