Your rating:
Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada as Renée Rosen draws readers into the glamour of 1965 New York City and Cosmopolitan Magazine, where a brazen new Editor-in-Chief--Helen Gurley Brown--shocks America by daring to talk to women about all things off limits... New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss who leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big city dreams and unexpectedly lands the job of a lifetime working for Helen Gurley Brown, the first female Editor-in-Chief of a then failing Cosmopolitan Magazine. Nothing could have prepared Alice for the world she enters as editors and writers resign on the spot, refusing to work for the woman who wrote the scandalous bestseller, Sex and the Single Girl. While confidential memos, article ideas, and cover designs keep finding their way into the wrong hands, someone tries to pull Alice into this scheme to sabotage her boss. But Alice remains loyal and becomes all the more determined to help Helen succeed. As pressure mounts at the magazine and Alice struggles to make her way in New York, she quickly learns that in Helen Gurley Brown's world, a woman can demand to have it all.
No posts yet
Kick off the convo with a theory, question, musing, or update
Your rating:
I really wanted to love this book. The premise was so interesting but there were so many times it fell short for me. I like the idea of following a young single woman as she discovers New York in the 60s but I really struggled to relate to the character. Plus, half the book was spent following a relationship that was toxic and clearly going to end badly. Overall it was somewhat lackluster and had a lot of scandalous moments simply for the sake of being scandalous.
*ARC provided in exchange for an honest review by Edelweiss