Lauri E. (Luluette) - , reviewed on 10/21/2013 + 47 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 12

If you are expecting this book to be anything at all like "The Devil Wears Prada", do yourself a favor and skip this one. I started out soooo excited, looking forward to more fashionista gossip, double-crossing business dealings, snarky co-workers, and the completely reprehensible behavior that made me love the first one so much.

Wrong. Big, big wrong.

The big pre-wedding drama promised was a trite, silly tempest in a teacup that was so typical of second-rate chick lit that all I could do was yawn.

And then horror of horrors, the rest of the book turned into a syrupy, treacle-laced, goopy puddle of mommy lit. Honestly, I almost gave up here. I should have. I wonder if Lauren Weisberger just had a baby and had the mad, irresistible urge to share the glory and wonder of her new motherhood with the masses. Ick. The endless "my baby is so adorable, my baby smells so good, my baby is the center of my now small and insular world, blah, blah, blah" became redundant and tedious very, very quickly, but it went on and on FOREVER. I understand that new moms love their babies and dote on them, and that is a worthy topic on which to write a book, but this wasn't what THIS book was supposed to be about.

Miranda didn't even appear in any noticeable way until late in the book, but by then, it was already waaaaay too little, and waaaaay too late.

What happened here? Where was the story I was promised? Where was the office drama? Where was the evil devil? Where was ANYTHING that I actually wanted to read about? Sigh. Total misrepresentation of the contents. I felt like this book was a total "bait and switch". I was so glad I got it from the library and didn't buy it myself. Soooooo disappointing!

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