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Title: complete waste of time
Review: this book is a complete waste of time ... the protagonist is dumb and not very likeable, the plot is ludicrous (when ESPERANTO is a major plot point, someone's trying too hard), and the fashion "details" are about what you could pick up reading your local newspaper. How many times can the author make dumb 80s-hairspray references? You will honestly lose count. And repeatedly pointing out that the heroine has a "great education" which she's wasting by being a fashion journalist? That's fairly insulting to people who enjoy fashion and think it's important, as well as being overly-reductive about the value of education. (Not to psychoanalyze too much, but since the author went to Harvard and is now working at PEOPLE magazine, maybe someone is insecure about her own life choices?)There are plenty of great, smart, enjoyable fashiony chick-lit reads out there. Too bad this isn't one of them.
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