Description from Amazon:
Almost a decade has passed since Andy Sachs
quit the job “a million girls would die for” working for Miranda Priestly
at Runway magazine—a dream that turned out to be a nightmare.
Andy and Emily, her former nemesis and co-assistant, have since joined forces
to start a high end bridal magazine, The Plunge, which has quickly
become required reading for the young and stylish. Now they get to call all the
shots: Andy writes and travels to her heart’s content; Emily plans parties and
secures advertising like a seasoned pro. Even better, Andy has met the love of
her life. Max Harrison, scion of a storied media family, is confident,
successful, and drop-dead gorgeous. Their wedding will be splashed across all
the society pages as their friends and family gather to toast the glowing
couple.
Andy Sachs is on top of the world. But karma’s a bitch. The morning of her
wedding, Andy can’t shake the past. And when she discovers a secret letter with
crushing implications, her wedding-day jitters turn to cold dread. Andy realizes
that nothing—not her husband, nor her beloved career—is as it seems. She never
suspected that her efforts to build a bright new life would lead her back to
the darkness she barely escaped ten years ago—and directly into the path of the
devil herself... Featuring all new scenes with the villainess we love to hate
(hate to love?), Miranda Priestly.
I enjoyed the first movie and when I saw
this book on the shelf, I thought I’d give it a go, expecting it to be about
Miranda’s revenge on Andy for the stunt she pulled. But oddly enough, Miranda
hardly plays a role in this.
The book starts with Andy’s wedding to Max
and her finding a letter from his mother warning him away from her and
mentioning a chance encounter with his ex before the wedding. Instead of doing
the mature thing and speaking to him, she completely freaks out, assumes he is
cheating, and wants to break off the wedding. Well, the wedding eventually happens,
but Andy is constantly puking and is tired all the time. Food poisoning?
Really? Those signs are kinda obvious. And then as we move through the book,
it’s all about Andy and her immaturity and not facing things head-on.
In the interim between the time she left
Runway and now, she and new bff Emily have created and are running a bridal
magazine called The Plunge. I thought it was a joke at first as it sounded like
a bra catalogue. But not, apparently it’s meant to cater to the elite wedding.
Okay then. Now it seems that someone wants to get their hands on this magazine
and Emily is all for it, but Andy not so much. Guess what Andy does. Runs away
from it all. Won’t talk about it. Can’t deal with it because it’s too much to
handle.
And because of this something drastic
happens. Now I didn’t agree with that part at all. I think the whole behind the
back thing was really being traitorous, but the entire story and the way it
plays out is just silly. I was interested to see what other reviewers thought
and one said that because Miranda only appeared four times in the book that it
was obvious she didn’t want revenge so the title was misleading. I’m on the
fence. Miranda seemed like the type of person who wouldn’t waste five seconds
of her time thinking about if it didn’t do anything for her, but also the type
of person who, if they could get their revenge somehow, then would.
The path you want in life might not be the
path you land on, but ten years later Andy could really have let go of the fear
of Miranda (we have all had hell to work under). And her character was
incongruous where she was petrified her then fiancé had cheated on her yet was
happy to advise a person in her “mommy group” to cheat on her boyfriend. Not
the Andy we admired from before.
I was really excited for this but it was
just a beach read at best. And one to forget.
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