A review by amies808
The Knockoff by Jo Piazza, Lucy Sykes

2.0

I will say, this moved quickly and the plotline was interesting. However, having worked in magazine publishing for five years (granted, that itself was five years ago), I found it VERY hard to believe that the EIC of a top fashion magazine would a) not see the massive shift in the magazine world - which started well before the recession, and trust, everyone from assistants to EICs could see that the industry was changing b) had absolutely zero knowledge of technology even tho she works for a fashion magazine c) was not at least 50% still connected to HER magazine during her medical leave. Basically, I found the whole premise for Eve's reign at Glossy/glossy.com completely unbelievable. I would have believed it had the story been set ten years ago -- but if it had, the authors couldn't complain quite so much about millennials. This scorn for millennials was more than palpable; it was downright exhausting. Perhaps you will enjoy this book much more than I did if you have it in you to despise an entire generation. Besides all that, the authors needed an editor to excise at least 50 pages of "then she kissed him goodbye. Then she turned to the door. Then she opened the door and left."