New York Times best-selling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada – Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who’s just landed the client of a lifetime.
Welcome to Greenwich, CT, where the lawns are manicured, the Long Island iced teas are extra strong, and heads turn when an infamous new neighbor arrives for an extended long weekend.
After Emily Charlton left Miranda Priestly and Runway magazine, she migrated to Los Angeles with her husband, working most recently as an image consultant to the stars. But recently Emily’s lost a few clients. She’s struggling. When the opportunity arrives to reinvent and relaunch a gorgeous former model whose mugshot graces the cover of the New York Post, Emily jumps at the chance. Relaunching Karolina is the big leagues.
Until eight weeks ago, Karolina was also the wife of an up-and-coming hotshot senator from New York. On the heels of her husband’s very public philandering, Karolina finds herself arrested for drunk driving – with a Suburban full of other people’s children. Her only true friend is Miriam, a hotshot New York City attorney turned stay-at-home-mom who lives in tiny Greenwich – conveniently close to Karolina and Graham’s summer “cottage”.
Miriam, Emily, and Karolina make an unlikely trio, but they need each other. Badly. Together, they’ll navigate the social landmines of the suburbs on the path to reinvention – unearthing truths that were stirring below the surface all along, and getting a bit of revenge along the way. With her signature biting, dazzling style, Lauren Weisberger offers a glittering look into a sexy, over-the-top world like no one else can.
The book was OK and I wanted to like it more The book was OK and I wanted to like it more. I think my main issue was that I didn’t find Emily’s character likable and felt her “redemption” at the end came out of nowhere. Also, I didn’t like that some of the plot points were left in the air–like the whole Alistair thing…I thought Miriam’s and Karolina’s storylines were better and would have enjoyed the book better if it were more about them.
Good as a stand-alone, disappointing as book no. 3 I loved both The Devil Wears Prada and The Devil Returns. This was a good entertainment chic-lit book, but not up to the standard of the two previous books. Emily just didn’t seem sassy enough, Miranda was just too nice all of a sudden, and the few sentences about Andy were disappointing (both in terms of space given her, and what the author has decided that Andy has done with her life). I would have loved more of the characters from the first books to have more follow-up here, and perhaps tie…
Lauren Weisberger Never Disappoints Lauren Weisberger never disappoints and she doesnât with âWhen Life Gives You Lulumons…â either. Itâs the perfect beach day read, or a night in. I read it in one sitting and laughed out loud. The return of Emily after a few years of marriage and a lot of growing up is delightful. And the bits where Miranda Priestly returns are actually a riot. Add 2 best friends, one very monstrous husband and mix them with the Ãber wealthy Connecticut mommy competitiveness and you’ve got a jewel of a book…