Life is really looking up for Claire Truman. In a New York minute, she lands a plum job at a top publishing house, catapulting her out of editorial assistant status and tripling her salary. In the same stroke of good luck, Claire goes from loser magnet to girlfriend of her decade-long crush: the fabulously successful and gorgeous Randall Cox (who's a nice guy, to boot). The perfect guy, the perfect job...it seems like Claire's dreams are all falling neatly into place.
Enter reality. It doesn't take long before Claire realizes she's working for the publishing world's worst tyrant: the outrageously abusive Vivian Grant, a woman who churns out New York Times bestsellers with the same frequency as she sends traumatized assistants flying out of her office in tears. Soon Claire is in staff meetings that feel more like war zones, at a book party thrown at a strip club, and watching Vivian run her employees into the ground and into therapy.
As Claire's job steals more and more of her time and soul, her relationship with Randall begins to feel the strain. It doesn't help that Claire's been spending overtime with Luke Mayville, a handsome, brilliant novelist whose career she's helping to launch.
With her love life at a crossroads and her work life driving her crazy, Claire can't help wondering if her future will have a happy ending. Her career may be on the fast track, but does she like where it's taking her... and who she might turn into?
I can't imagine I have boss like Vivian Grant. Genius, she is, but her tongue is poisonous. She'll make you crazy even if you do the right things. Claire is so lucky she hasn't crazy, yet. She doesn't catch a flu with working rhythm like that. If that happens to me, I must be in the hospital and ask days off for a couple of months.
It's interesting Clark wrote from the climax then back to introduction. Flashback in other way than we usually use. Clark make us hate Vivian successfully. And will stuck in our head longer than we can imagine. All of the negative personalities are given to her, include the positive ones. Completely in one figure. Maybe Vivian Grant is worse than Miranda Priesly from Devil Wears Prada (I don't read that yet).
Luke is a good name for good person. That name is used in Shopaholic series as main male character and he is very angelic (according to me. I want one if there is a Luke in real life). But Luke's portion is too small here. I want to read him growing in Claire's mind. That's too bad.
Reading this book, I know how complicated publishing houses are.
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