Andrea, also known as Andy, is a recent college graduate eager to make her mark in NYC as a writer. She gets sidetracked by a job at the world’s most glamorous fashion magazine instead. Inexplicably, Andrea holds the charmingly delusional belief that her irrational, sadistic boss will pick up the phone and get her a staff writer position at the New Yorker if only she (Andrea) completes a full year of degrading, pointless service to her (the boss). So Andrea tries her best to fit in with the crowd of shallow, emaciated fashionistas and do her mistress’s bidding; predictably, she loses sight of what is really important to her.

There are a lot of repetitive scenes in The Devil Wears Prada that don’t culminate in much of a payoff in the end. I thought this book would be much more clever than it was. ( )

much to my disbelief, I actually really enjoyed this book. It was an easy read but a very enjoyable one. I'm glad I finally picked this one up. I guess I'll try the movie now! ( )

I thought this book was entertaining so I'm not sure why there were so many bad reviews. I laughed out loud at times. Her boss was ridiculous in a very real way. I have worked with some very unrealistic people before so I can relate. I will most likely read the sequel at some point. ( )

Yes the technology aspect of Devil Wears Prada is dated, oh how Andrea would love google docs and real smart phone but the rest of it still stands up to today's chick lit especially having read lots of the "magazine girl" chick lit that followed this one. ( )

I am just going to go ahead and say it. I did not like this book. I tried, I really did, but I just couldn't muster up anything. This mainly had to do with the main character. I really did not like her, to me she just seemed like a spoiled, whiny, 'intellectual', who felt she was too good for anything. so I really couldn't muster up any sympathy for her when she was put into a impossible situations by Miranda.

The Character Andrea seems largely to wallow in her self to the point where she completely ignores the people in trouble who are close to her, until it's too late. I kept reading because I felt that I was missing something, something that other people were reading and were liking but it never did come. I was really disappointed and I wish I had kept this book off my challenge list. I'm still going to watch the movie and I'm crossing my fingers that it's better than the book. I won't write a comparison because I didn't like it enough to and I have better things to do with my time honestly.

There's one thing I can say about the book as a positive, it does hold up well despite it being fourteen years old.
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