Repetitive brain candy and not nearly as good as the original. ( )

It was ok, but Andrea was a little annoying ( )

Reading Reveng Wears Prada was like meeting up with an old friend. I read the original back in 2009 for a school project (of my choosing!). I loved the movie and I wanted to see how different the book was. The first book let me down plot wise, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. In walks this books... and all of my anger and frustrations with book one was fixed. Thank you Lauren Weisberger!

I know everyone didn't enjoy this book, but at times I felt like Lauren was writing this as the follow-up to all of the complaints I made to my friends and parents over a decade ago when I initially read this book. It's a fun romp with Andy and Emily starting their own business and living out their adult lives.

Did I hope for more? Oh yes! Did it really bother me all that much? Not really. This felt like a fun, cozy beach read.

I expected Miranda to be more present and evil, but she really... wasn't. I did expect certain characters to change their ways... But I expected almost more drama. This book was so easy going, and wasn't the monster-fest I expect from Miranda Priestly (aka Meryl Streep, our mighty lord and saviour).

Overall, this is a nice follow-up that I found to be an easy read to binge. It was nice revising those characters again.

Three out of five stars. ( )

Hated the ending. It's as if Weisberger ran out of ideas ( )

I seem to have picked up the wrong book, or there was a printing error. The synopsis on the back promised me a return of the boss from hell, intent on revenge. Sounded ok, but that's not what I got from the book. The boss returned, but she wasn't there for revenge. She was there to do business, nothing more. There was a story along those lines hidden within the pages, but it got buried among numerous chapters about a girl who had a baby and did some stuff. And that was about it.

This was written as a sequel to a pretty successful story that, although it can't be described as a classic, had a good storyline to it, and a compelling villain, if not main character. This book had none of those things. Eveything was watered down. Not one of the characters was interesting. Even Miranda herself, with the exception of maybe one exchange, was downright friendly. It seemed to me as though the author got bored with the story and carried on writing while her mind was on other things. I didn't want to read about babies and every last detail of someone's taste in interior decoration. I wanted the characters present on the first story. I wanted the villain. And why was it written in third person, and not first as the first book was? In that book the reader was in the thick of it; here, they were distanced. I don't understand the change.

I didn't like the ending either. The last page was just sappy and an easy way out for the writer, in my opinion.

If there's a third installment it can stay in the library.



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