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

2.0

Wow. I wanted a fun, fashion romp, and my expectations for my fluff reading are low, but the premise of this book was so insane that I could NOT enjoy the story. A 42 year old woman, a successful editor in chief of a fashion magazine but we’re supposed to believe that girlfriend doesn’t know how to check her email? Sees all tech as a foreign language? If she were maybe 25 years older, I could have gotten on board but it just makes no sense.

Maybe the authors had an axe to grind with “millennial” women? The antagonist was completely one dimensional, and it seemed generally insulting to millennial women (robotic, fickle) and Gen X (inflexible, sad).

I don’t understand how folks gave this rave reviews. I am so confused.