Lauren Weisberger
This is the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, and I picked it up expecting that Weisberger would deliver the same level of wit and heart as she did in the first book. I had loved Andy in the Devil wears Prada, but was sorely disappointed by how she was presented in the sequel.
The humour wasn’t as strong either, somehow it all seemed to be watered down. Andy was far less interesting, maybe it was because of the shift from 1st person to 3rd? There was less insight into Andy’s thought processes, obviously because we weren’t able to see through her eyes anymore.
Emily makes another appearance in the book, as does Miranda Priestly but neither really seemed to possess the same biting and caustic wit that they had in the first book. Emily and Andy are working together again, and seem to be reasonably close friends, a complete contrast to their relationship in the first book. It didn’t quite ring true to me, that they would change their perspectives of each other so radically.
I do still think Weisberger is a great writer, it’s just that the Devil Wears Prada was so well written, and Andy was so interesting and funny, that even a slight dip in her writing made me enormously disappointed.
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I'm a thirty something woman who lives in the north of England. I have been a writer for as long as I can remember, creating stories both written and verbal since childhood. While studying at Edge Hill College, I got several poems published by a small publisher in the USA, and in Europe. I have been part of several writing groups, and done quite a few courses in a attempt to hone my writing skills further. I love reading different genres of fiction, knowing that the best way to develop my own writing, and my vocabulary is by exposing myself to the different ways that other people choose to describe things.
The most recent writing course that I've been part of, run by a published author, included a exercise in which we were challenged to read things that we would never usually even look at.
It inspired me to take up a challenge. Namely to attempt to read at least one book by every author which is stocked in my local library. I soon realised that I was being far too ambitious, especially given the fact that every library rotates their stock too often for me to keep track.
I've decided to instead attempt to read a book every day, starting with a author whose surname begins with A, and ending with a author whose surname begins with Z. It doesn't matter what the topic of the book is, or if it's fiction or non fiction, everything is useful for me at the minute.
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