Is This The Worst Book Of The Year??????????????????

                             Many are saying so, girls, but not I.  I stick with my citing Marisha Pessl's "Night Film" as the Best Book Of the Year, but Lauren Weisberger's highly anticipated Summer Read was a letdown, deserving to be called, not Worst Book Of The Year, but Most Disappointing!!!!

                               The bristling bitchery that made all us girls simply ADORE "The Devil Wears Prada" was missing from this one.  If I were Anna Wintour, I would be more offended by this book, than the first; here, Miranda Priestly comes off as a cipher, and she barely appears in the novel.  The reader waits for her to appear, and when she does, she is far from the Fabulous Gorgon she was in the first book!  She does some underhanded things, yes--she would not be Miranda, otherwise--but not with the judicious fun she seemed to be having in the first book.  There, she was a Fun Bitch!  Here, she is just dull!  Even Anna would agree she deserves better parody, than that!!!!!!!!!!!

                               As for Andy, Lauren gives her an empowered, "Sex In The City" type resolution that made me want to gag!  Why go all Candace Bushnell, all of a sudden, Lauren???? Lack of confidence in  the material??????

                               Speaking as I did, earlier this year, this is not so bad as "Last Night At Chateau Marmont," but far from what Lauren at her best, her most Lauren, is capable of!  I can only hope her next effort--which I will read--outdoes this!

                                Because, if it doesn't Lauren, dear, then, fabulous hair or not, suddenly publishers will not want to print your books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 Happy New Year, darling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!