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A review by lauren_miller
My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
Did not finish book.
DNF @ 27% (pg. 120)
I could NOT bring myself to care about Cat and her struggles because honestly? I'm not a fan of the "pretending to be someone or something you're not" trope. I get it, the business world spouts this whole "you have to act the part" nonsense, similar to the "dress for the job you want" idea, but that doesn't mean we should abide by it.
And the office setting? First of all, boring as fuck. I don't care about the office politics. You know from the get-go, thanks to the wayyy too obvious book blurb, that she's never going to really get anywhere with these colleagues, so did we really need 90-ish pages of JUST office material? And let's not forget the fact that their workplace environment is toxic and catty AF. At least in movie form a.k.a. "The Devil Wears Prada, you don't need more than five minutes to address the inane social and professional hierarchies; you move straight into the grit of the plot to things the viewer should actually CARE about. Over half the material could've been cut from the first forth of the book and I wouldn't have missed it at all.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm going to give Can You Keep a Secret? a chance even though my first two Kinsella reads were a bust. But this is the last chance. 3 strikes and I'm accepting defeat.
I could NOT bring myself to care about Cat and her struggles because honestly? I'm not a fan of the "pretending to be someone or something you're not" trope. I get it, the business world spouts this whole "you have to act the part" nonsense, similar to the "dress for the job you want" idea, but that doesn't mean we should abide by it.
And the office setting? First of all, boring as fuck. I don't care about the office politics. You know from the get-go, thanks to the wayyy too obvious book blurb, that she's never going to really get anywhere with these colleagues, so did we really need 90-ish pages of JUST office material? And let's not forget the fact that their workplace environment is toxic and catty AF. At least in movie form a.k.a. "The Devil Wears Prada, you don't need more than five minutes to address the inane social and professional hierarchies; you move straight into the grit of the plot to things the viewer should actually CARE about. Over half the material could've been cut from the first forth of the book and I wouldn't have missed it at all.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm going to give Can You Keep a Secret? a chance even though my first two Kinsella reads were a bust. But this is the last chance. 3 strikes and I'm accepting defeat.