This was a timely and relevant topic due to all of the college admissions scandals as of late. Well-written and witty, Weisberger does a great job of switching between characters for their point of view. I really enjoyed the ending and the steps in which each character takes to grow as a person.

Kindly received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I am obsessed with all of Weisberger’s books and this one was no different. In a classic case of rich people behaving badly, too much money has ended in tragedy. Throughout the book you see family coming together, personal development, and a lot of laughing and crying. The characters were the perfect amount of lovable and hatable. Will 100% be recommending this one!

In what might have been an ordinary novel about siblings and mother/daughter issues, Weisberger has managed to create a very readable and engaging book. Taking a crisis from the news and.bringing it into the lives of an extraordinary family, I found myself enjoying the book and loving all the characters.

Mistakes were made, paying money to a college advisor to help young Max get into an Ivy League school became the catalyst for the events that soon spiraled out of control. The book centers around 3 women and how the crisis affected them. Peyton and Skye are sisters with different value systems, but with tremendous underlying love. The reader joins them as they change during a summer of extreme stress.

I really enjoyed this story (as I have enjoyed the author’s earlier books). Yes, it is certainly a book that book groups will love, especially women. As entertaining as it is, there are lots of underlying issues women will enjoy discussing.

Thank you Netgalley for such a lovely book to read and review.

Lauren Weisberger is an incredible creator of unforgettable powerful female main characters (The Devil Wears Prada’s Miranda Priestly will go down in history) and in her new novel, Weisberger gifts her readers with Peyton Marcus.

Peyton is a bubbly “America’s sweetheart” morning news reporter whose personal life is suddenly thrust into the spotlight when she is live on air covering a story of a college admissions scandal and then her husband is promptly arrested for bribery charges relating to their daughter’s admission to Princeton University, and this sets up the plot of the novel, with what happens the Marcus family and their daughter’s reaction, and there’s a complete b-plot in the novel with Peyton’s relationship with her sister and the charity project that her sister is working on. I will be honest that the b-plot really bored me. I didn’t care much for the sister’s character or her story and found myself skimming those chapters. I got a little bored.

But the novel is ridiculously funny at times, (the chapter titles alone made me laugh out loud multiple times), and I loved everything about Peyton Marcus and the chapters involving her work life. Weisberger’s writing is so fun and witty, some of her pop culture insight just cracks me up. The first 20-25% was SO good, I couldn’t put it down, and then I think the novel fell flat in the middle, but it had a very redeeming end. I think it will be a popular read in people’s beach bags this summer.

3.5 stars.

Thanks to Random House and NetGalley for an advance copy.

Another gem from the Devil Wears Prada writer. This book centers around two sisters who have taken very different paths but are both very much lost. I highly recommend this read. I enjoyed it immensely.