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The Knockoff

Lucy Sykes,

Jo Piazza (Goodreads Author)

3.63 · Rating details · 14,150 ratings · 1,704 reviews

An outrageously stylish, wickedly funny novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor in chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twentysomething former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app.

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May 30, 2015 Kristie Helms rated it it was ok

This book was ridiculous and horrible. I don't get for a second the rave reviews from others -- are they friends with the author? Were they paid?

The premise itself was bizarre. A 40-something who until recently had her emails printed out for her by her assistant? Seriously? 40-somethings are the GenX generation -- the generation that's been online from the beginning.

Also you've got to be kidding me that someone gets to be editor of a major fashion publication without having more of a backbone ...more

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Apr 16, 2015 Jenna rated it liked it

Shelves: 2015-reading-challenge, reviewed, chick-lit, workplace-drama

You don't pick up People Magazine expecting the musings of Thoreau, and you don't expect the worker at the McDonald's drive-thru window to pass you some organic kale. Likewise, you wouldn't -- I hope -- pick up this book expecting much more than fluffy, frivolous, fashion-themed fun. If your expectations remain thus reasonable, then this book delivers. The book is like a really successful Forever 21 dress, one that's a great copy of a truly on-trend style: there's not much substance to it, and i You don't pick up People Magazine expecting the musings of Thoreau, and you don't expect the worker at the McDonald's drive-thru window to pass you some organic kale. Likewise, you wouldn't -- I hope -- pick up this book expecting much more than fluffy, frivolous, fashion-themed fun. If your expectations remain thus reasonable, then this book delivers. The book is like a really successful Forever 21 dress, one that's a great copy of a truly on-trend style: there's not much substance to it, and it's not going to endure through more than one season, but it can give you a fabulous night or two and maybe, in its best moments, convey the fleeting experience of living a life in high fashion.

Obviously the book bears comparison to The Devil Wears Prada, only instead of a young naive newbie being harassed by a seasoned despot of a boss, we have a sympathetic main character, Imogen, an experienced veteran in her industry, returning from sick leave to discover her erstwhile new boss, Eve, is a millennial brat who is also a HBS grad and a tech genius. It's no accident she's named Eve; there are definitely echoes of "All About Eve" here.

At its worst, the book does devolve into some pretty manic high camp toward the climactic ending, as the antagonist swells with malicious power in a manner befitting Linda Blair at the end of The Exorcist (only much better looking, and probably smelling). There is far too much melodramatic baring of teeth and narrowing of eyes into slits.

The other extreme flaw of the book is that Imogen, as a wealthy and worldly Manhattan-residing and globetrotting fashion and publishing executive, who is only in her 40s and also has an attorney husband and a tween daughter, is **completely unrealistic** in her utter lack of tech knowledge at the outset of the book. (She wouldn't even be able to find us here on Goodreads, people - that's how little the authors would have us believe she knows about anything digital.) For purposes of moving the plot forward, Imogen needs to be a complete tech bumblehead, when in truth a typical Iowa grandparent would know more about technology these days than Imogen supposedly does.

However, we don't seek out a book like this when realism is our main priority, and at least 85 percent of the book is perfectly enjoyable chick lit with no terribly egregious errors noticeable in the writing - no tags or slips or straps or panty lines showing. So, if you're looking to slip into something a little more comfortable, for beach reading perhaps, you might consider trying on this book for size! ...more

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Jun 15, 2015 Dee rated it really liked it

Shelves: netgalley

I've had dinners with twentysomethings where the meal was delayed because they had to photograph the food first, and I've been at events where I've sat in silence surrounded by dozens of young people with their noses buried in smartphones.

Because of this generation gap, and because I still use hotmail and a Nokia that doesn't do Internet, I found the protagonist of this breezy chick lit novel charming. Imogen is a forty-something big time editor of a fashion magazine who understands the value o ...more

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Mar 25, 2016 Diane Barnes rated it liked it

Shelves: noble-bitches-book-club

WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT: 1. Great literature
2. Socially redeeming in any way

WHAT THIS BOOK IS: 1. A lot of fun to read
2. Very satisfying to anyone with revenge
fantasies

Technology vs real life interaction is a major theme here, as is aging dinosaurs (at 42, no less) vs young upstarts in the business world. The fashion industry in this case, but I work for a large corporation, and I saw comparisons even in my lowly status as a part-timer.

FAVORITE QUOTES FROM THIS BOOK: "Have we all become so des ...more

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Jan 04, 2015 Gin Boswick rated it it was amazing

Full disclosure: I know Lucy well and have met Jo only once for five minutes.

This book is a must--deep, fun, intense, never heavy-handed--it made me cry with laughter when I wasn't pondering its interesting takes on life and adulthood and the struggles of (wo)men within it. You don't have to know anything about fashion to get the references and humor, and I guarantee that after reading this rollicking ride through the fashion world you will never look at a magazine spread the same way again.

I Full disclosure: I know Lucy well and have met Jo only once for five minutes.

This book is a must--deep, fun, intense, never heavy-handed--it made me cry with laughter when I wasn't pondering its interesting takes on life and adulthood and the struggles of (wo)men within it. You don't have to know anything about fashion to get the references and humor, and I guarantee that after reading this rollicking ride through the fashion world you will never look at a magazine spread the same way again.

I am in love with Imogen Tate. She is exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up: worldly, funny, knowledgable, humble, compassionate and wildly curious. Who wouldn't want to be like that??!? Eve Morton, that's who.

Eve is the antithesis of Imogen and metaphorically the hellish future we are heading toward unless we stop thinking that New is always better and The Only Way--that to move forward we must never look back.

The book begins with a charming montage--an editor's idea board almost--of what is so unassuming and human and lovely and "outdated" about Imogen and how charmingly she interacts with the world. Sure, she could be more savvy with devices, but her "old" way is actually refreshing and real and strangely novel in the new world of depersonalized connection and isolated individual experiences.

Eve is intellectually and behaviorally nouveau riche, dismissing anything that isn't automatically shiny, new and self-aggrandizing. Imogen's struggle to see the best in every situation, even one commandeered by a dreadful egomaniac such as Eve, is how she has remained relevant through so many iterations in the fashion world; it is also why she vanquishes Eve. She is constantly learning, constantly evolving whereas the younger, fitter, perfectionist Eve, who believes she has nothing to learn from her elders, from the past, from the history of fashion in particular, is doomed to fail. She can't learn, as it would be an admission that she didn't already know X, Y or Z, so down she will go, like Narcissus, drowning in her iPad's reflection.

I laughed out loud so many times during this book--the way Imogen without seeking to do so manages to bring hilarity and electric excitement to every situation she gets involved in--such as when she goes to the shows and finds she is placed in the "economy seats" and finds the view and experience is actually much better from there and nearly steals the show. Having been in fashion for almost a decade myself, the references are spot on. The people, sometimes faintly disguised, really do talk and think and act like that!!! It was a lovely walk down memory lane, and newbies will find the fashion world even more ridiculously creative and navel-gazing than they imagined.

All the funniness aside, this book really is a commentary on How To Live In The World, when that world thinks all innovation is borne of a failure of the old system and people become commoditized. When "what do you do," "who do you know," and "what can you do for me" start to matter more than "what are your passions," "what has most shaped your experience," and "what do you add to the world with your curiosity and empathy?" Imogen adds beauty. Art for the sake of art. Eve, more like the First Fembot than the first woman, adds data points and inhumanity, but her presence provides the perfect platform--despite her wishes--for Imogen to shine. Unwittingly Eve's insular lack of empathy allows Imogen's messy lovely genius to rise to the top. In that way, Eve--and she would HATE THIS--becomes inadvertently a great help to Imogen's evolution: her presence forces Imogen to embrace her own magnificence. So we are grateful to those people who try to destroy us for they force us to own our brilliance.

All this in one little novel. It's Man vs. the Machine with sequins and stilettos. It's 2015: A Fashionworld Odyssey, with the role of Hal being played by Eve.

Vive La Femme! All Hail Queen Imogen! ...more

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Feb 05, 2015 Angela Holtz rated it it was amazing

I absolutely fell for Imogen Tate. I'm not a person who is into fashion, but the feeling of being overwhelmed, of being left behind can be universal...especially with women. She had a beloved assistant, Eve, who left to go to Harvard Business School. When Imogen returns from fighting breast cancer, she finds Eve has returned and that absolutely everything about her beloved magazine has changed. Everything is online, there is no longer going to be a print version, and Eve undermines every single ...more

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Apr 28, 2015 Karen rated it it was ok

It was fine. I felt the character read a lot older than she was written. I'm 40, she is suppose to be 42, but I felt she read more like 72. I mean, who is in their 40s and here in 2015 (which is when the book takes place) and doesn't know how to use the Internet. How would this woman, who is suppose to be EIC of a top fashion magazine have been in her position only a year earlier, before the dreaded "C word," and not have been live Tweeting at any of the Fashion Weeks? It was a quick read that w ...more

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Jun 01, 2015 Natalie TBGWP rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2015

Yay, we finally have a book that not only kicks complete ass, but is totally up-to-date, and isn’t another cliched romance or cafe related read.

I absolutely loved this book. It’s current, it’s sassy, it’s funny, and it’s extremely clever. The plot is dynamite, the flow is fast and furious. It’s a book that had me wanting to climb into its pages in anger one minute and giggling the next. It never stopped shocking and to be totally honest it’s just far too cool.

Heroine Imogen is a total sweetheart ...more

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Mar 05, 2018 Stephanie Anze rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Imogen Tate comes back to work as editor in chief of Glossy Magazine after a six-month absence. Having recovered from a health issue, Imogen is primed to get back where she left off except that the office she walks into is a completely different world. Where once her trusted and experienced editors that Imogen hand-picked stood, now there is a large group of twenty-something women. At the helm is Eve Morten, Imogen's former assisant. Armed with a Harvard MBA and an attitude better suited for the Imogen Tate comes back to work as editor in chief of Glossy Magazine after a six-month absence. Having recovered from a health issue, Imogen is primed to get back where she left off except that the office she walks into is a completely different world. Where once her trusted and experienced editors that Imogen hand-picked stood, now there is a large group of twenty-something women. At the helm is Eve Morten, Imogen's former assisant. Armed with a Harvard MBA and an attitude better suited for the playground than the work place, Eve is gunning for Imogen's job. Imogen may not be tech savy but she will not go down without a fight.

This book is not the next great novel, its an indulgence. Its like that decadent chocolate dessert you allow yourself to have after eating sensibly. True, you are not getting much the way of nutrition but its a sweet break you crave. Bearing many similarities to 'The Devil Wears Prada' (with Eve playing the role of Miranda Priestly) this novel was quite fun and entertaining. Imogen Tate is 42 and widely respected in the fashion realm. Being on a personal name basis with plenty designers, Imogen helped Glossy become a household name until she got sick. Upon her return, its Eve that is in charge. Glossy is no longer a print magazine but a digital one. Imogen is definitely at a disadvantage here as technology is not her forte. What ensues is a battle of technology vs experince. Eve vs Imogen. As a reader, you do have to check criticisms at the door. Yes, most characters are one note and cliched and certain events are flat out ridiculous. Having said that, I really did enjoy reading this book. It turned out to be a pleasent experience. While it was a slow start, once I got passed the first third of the book, I was completely hooked (and rooting for Imogen).

I just love all the references in the book but by far the most amusing one is 'Project Fashion' with a certain German host. I happen to love 'Project Runway' so it was a nice touch. Just briefly I would like to touch on how the book talks about the role of technology currently. While this is a fluffy and light read, the book does make valid points. All the different forms of social media have made our generation interact differently to that of our parents. This book is a hyperbole of all things fashion and technology but it works to create an addictive read. So if you are looking for some escapism and just plain fun, check out this book. ...more

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Jan 10, 2015 Sharon Redfern rated it it was amazing

I loved this book! A modern take on the All About Eve story, it's the classic grasping young girl tries to take down her older and wiser mentor/boss. Imogen is the Editor in Chief of glossy magazine and comes back from medical leave to discover that her much loved fashion magazine has become a digital app and is mostly being run by her backstabbing one time assistant Eve. After an initial tough time getting back in the new techie groove, Imogen puts her big girl panties on and learns to integrat ...more

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May 31, 2015 Rana rated it it was amazing

Best book ever. I mean, no, not really, obviously. Best book ever is probably something by stinking Hemingway or another dead white male. But this is like second best book ever. Full of fist-pumping fun.

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Jun 04, 2015 Anita rated it it was amazing

The Knockoff is a wonderful mixture of smart humor, great characters and a plot that addresses so much about today's world. I loved Imogen and thoroughly enjoyed the story. Highly recommended! ...more

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May 05, 2015 Dianne rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-2018

This may be touted as a different take on the book, “The Devil Wears Prada”, but any of the ‘gray hairs’ that this book pokes fun at will know in an instant that this is an updated, tech-filled remake of “All About Eve”. You might even say that it has just a touch of the original 1939 “The Women” added to the mix too. Granted it really does have a generous helping of The Devil Wears Prada also!

This was really a depressing book for me at the start. I too am a tech dinosaur/gray hair just hanging ...more

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May 22, 2019 Amy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, unexpectedly-good, cotton-candy, laughter-is-the-best-medicine, chick-lit

3.5 stars for the plot + 1.5 stars for the absolutely fabulous narrator

This was an absolutely delicious audio book and if you decide to read The Knockoff, I recommend checking it out in the audio format. Katherine Kellgren somehow manages British accents, valley-girl accents, and start-up tech nerd without once making it feel forced or awkward. Delightful.

I adored the first half of this book. I enjoyed the second half. Unfortunately, the sheer drama of the second half detracts from what I enjoy 3.5 stars for the plot + 1.5 stars for the absolutely fabulous narrator

This was an absolutely delicious audio book and if you decide to read The Knockoff, I recommend checking it out in the audio format. Katherine Kellgren somehow manages British accents, valley-girl accents, and start-up tech nerd without once making it feel forced or awkward. Delightful.

I adored the first half of this book. I enjoyed the second half. Unfortunately, the sheer drama of the second half detracts from what I enjoyed about the first half.
At the beginning we meet Imogen: a 42-year-old editor and chief of a fashion magazine. She returns from sick-leave to discover her beloved magazine has been turned into an app. Further, her former assistant, Eve, is running things. Imogen knows nothing about tech. Eve believes the world runs on tweets and selfies.
The story thus starts off as a wonderful clash between a Gen Xer trying to get her bearing in a suddenly Millennial workforce and an energetic Millennial trying to become the next Steve Jobs. And I loved it. Sure, the concept could be critiqued. At 42, Imogen seems an unlikely candidate to completely lack tech-awareness. And it seems a well-established fashion magazine suddenly tuning consumer app in only a few months would raise a few eyebrows.
But it is fun. It is fun to see Imogen grasp social media and totally rock it. It is fun to see how Millennials are portrayed (for the most part) with graciousness. I mean, the usual critiques get thrown in there. Millenials constantly need adoration. They don't value independence. They don't know how to respect their elders. etc. etc. But they're young. They're hungry. They focus on different things than Imogen and her 'generation.' So while the story pulls out all the usual complaints, it also tends to use it as character growth to look at them as unique, different human beings.
Further, it is fun to read chick-flick with a narrator like Imogen: mature, established, curious. She is not the usual air-headed innocent taking on the city for the first time.
I loved her supportive family life and strong female friendships. I love the mentoring relationships she develops with some of the girls around her.
Basically, as long as the book remained somewhat of a social critique of different generations in the workforce, I enjoyed it.
But then it cranks the drama up to ten.
Eve goes from 'boss who doesn't get it' to 'super evil Millennial witch.'
Like, diabolically, I-as-a-reader-do-not-understand-where-this-is-coming-from evil.
On the one hand, this builds the suspense for the climax and leaves you firmly rooting for Imogen. It is good guy against bad guy.
On the other, it means any sense of subtlety or nuance in the story gets completely thrown out the window.
In the end, I would say I enjoyed this one and the narrator made it a delight to listen to. I did not want to put it down. But the flip into Hollywood style drama means I will likely not remember this story long. ...more

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Sep 30, 2017 Dana (pagestoreadfl) rated it really liked it

So, let's be honest here. This is not a book that will make you think deep. It's not a book that will be a book of the year. But I loved it. Four stars some may wonder. Why not? I knew what it was when I picked it up. A book that was a fun look into the colliding worlds of print and tech. And it kept turning pages. I knew how it would end-- or at least an idea-- but that didn't stop me from devouring this book in less than 24 hours.

Imogen Tate just returned to Glossy, a fashion magazine, after ...more

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Apr 03, 2018 britt_brooke rated it liked it

“Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we’ve stopped enjoying our lives?”

I enjoy a good satire. This didn’t have me LOLing quite as much as their other collaboration, Fitness Junkie, but it was still smart and clever. This pokes fun at techie millennials, social media, and ageism but also hits a lot of positive notes. It’s a good palate cleanser.

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May 23, 2015 Lulufrances rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Give me a book taking place in the fashion industry, mix in social media and the socalled Digital Natives generation and I'm sure to gobble it up.
I mean, some of my fav films are The September Issue and The Devil Wears Prada, so really, no-brainer.
(Also -> COVER! So sleek and chic. The title! Baaam. I do not understand why the US edition has such a horrendous cover and actually a different name. Not good marketing in this specific case, in my opinion.)

This is my typical guilty pleasure book, but ...more

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Jan 01, 2015 Marcee Feddersen rated it really liked it

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This book started out slow. I understand that the authors were trying to make the point that the heroine, Imogen, is supposed to be so old and outdated (she was 42!!! If you didn't know that, you would have thought she was 85 or slightly slow) that she is in danger of becoming irrelevant. But the initial build up for this was so over the top that it was embarrassing. It's hard to

Oh, Imogen......

believe that a 42 year old editor in chief of a national fashi ...more

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May 11, 2015 Jennifer rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-coffee-books-challenge

Pure escapist fun -- dressed in Versace.

Imogen Tate, well-respected 42-year old Editor in Chief of Glossy magazine, returns from a 6 month medical leave to find that her former assistant (and newly minted Harvard MBA) Eve has convinced the magazine publishers to cease the printed magazine and turn the entire operation into an e-commerce app. Imogen struggles to understand the rapidly changing technology and her relevance in the new corporate structure, while Eve is determined to turn the staff a ...more

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Jul 11, 2017 Nicole Chinnici rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017, genre-contemporary, genre-womens-fiction

The Knockoff was a fun and entertaining book. If you read the blurb and thought it sounded kind of similar to The Devil Wears Prada but with something of a role reversal, you’d be right.

This has been on my long list of books I’d like to get to someday since it’s publication back in May of 2015. When I was browsing through audiobooks in my library’s catalog for a lighter read, The Knockoff showed as available and it seemed the time was right to dive in. I will admit, it took me a bit to get into ...more

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Mar 19, 2015 Rhiannon Johnson rated it it was amazing

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The Knockoff is The Devil Wears Prada 2.0 and I loved every single word! Where we were previously rooting for new girl Andi to take down Miranda, in this novel we are hoping Imogen can oust bratty Eve. Imogen's initial naive observances are cute and laughable, such as:
"But the website was just a necessary appendage of the actual pages of the magazine, used mainly as a dumping ground for favors for advertisers and leftover stories ...more

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Jun 26, 2015 Helen Dunn rated it really liked it

Shelves: four-stars

Fast paced fun book about a young tech-savvy (and evil) editor at a fashion magazine trying to steal the show from her 42 year old "dinosaur" of a boss.

Readers are meant to sympathize with the dinosaur and that was easy for me since I am even older than her and have actually had more than one conversation recently wondering exactly what is the point of Instagram anyway?

Filled with fun characters and while the plot is completely predictable it was still a worthwhile use of time.

Perfect for lig ...more

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May 29, 2017 Heidi rated it liked it

Shelves: 2017-goal

Just not as funny as I'd hoped but I did love Imogen... unfortunately I related way more than what was comfortable. It wasn't the typical chick lit read for me... rather a bit of a mirror underscoring the 'ageism' plaguing some industries... heck, maybe most industries today.

I won't make this post about millennials vs. Gen Xers, but there was a lot of sad truth in this book that kept me from truly enjoying it. Mostly I was glad to see the happy ending, but in the real world, these kinds of endi ...more

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Jun 16, 2015 Donna rated it it was amazing

From the reviews and the front flap, I expected a fun beach read about the fashion/magazine business but this story was so much more. As a working woman who is on the cusp of retirement, I cringed along with the heroine and and cheered for her at the end. It was a clear statement about having values in the workplace....AND a fun beach read!

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May 30, 2015 KL (Cat) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit, adult-2015

Surprisingly a new breath of fresh air in the tired cliched world of chick-lit. Our heroine is fantastically relatable!
Think: What would it be like if the roles of Miranda Priestly and Andrea Sachs were reversed? Tech mishaps, weddings, well-rounded family support; all that and more.

✫✫✫✫

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Jul 13, 2015 Alicia rated it did not like it

This is some Francine Pascal-level shit right here.

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May 15, 2018 Martin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I think it’s time for me to focus on 2015 THE KNOCKOFF (called TECHBITCH in the UK) by...

http://sleaze-factor.blogspot.ca/2018... ...more

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Jul 12, 2015 Heather rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Oh where do I start with this gem of a book?

Right, first of there is one great big obvious comparison that I'll need to discuss before I go any further and that is Techbitch and it's similarity to the Devil wears Prada. Yes they are both set in the glossy world of fashion magazines and yes they feature bitches but Techbitch makes Miranda Priestly look like a Sunday School teacher.

I love this book by the way, it can do no wrong, in fact it is so wonderful I have even learnt some stuff from it, li ...more

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Jun 22, 2015 Kaitlyn Davis rated it it was amazing

Really 4.5 but I decided to round up for the star rating because I really really enjoyed reading this book!!

For some reason, even though I'm a millennial and a self-published author whose career is totally thanks to the tech movement, I found myself completely identifying with Imogen! I love technology. I can't imagine my life right now without a cell phone, without Google maps, without Facebook, without digital cameras, heck without Candy Crush, and especially without my self-publishing startu Really 4.5 but I decided to round up for the star rating because I really really enjoyed reading this book!!

For some reason, even though I'm a millennial and a self-published author whose career is totally thanks to the tech movement, I found myself completely identifying with Imogen! I love technology. I can't imagine my life right now without a cell phone, without Google maps, without Facebook, without digital cameras, heck without Candy Crush, and especially without my self-publishing startup platforms like Smashwords and the whole host of people I work with every week whose careers wouldn't be possible without the internet! But still, nothing bothers me more than when people can't take a break for an hour to live life with the people around them! I hate when I get dinner with a friend and he or she is on a cell phone half of the time, or when I used to work in an office and had to email the girl in the cubicle next to mine because it was odd to just walk ten feet to ask someone else a question in person! Some things were better before the tech boom, and even I, someone who grew up in the prime of the internet age, can't follow what apps are hot, what's new, what's coming! That whole aspect of the book as Imogen questions all of these apps, adjusts to life in the tech age, and questions all the younger people around her who don't know a different life was fantastic!! I LOVED it!! And I found myself cheering for her, especially when she found Instagram!

I also loved the industry side -- I think maybe because I worked for a magazine and a I worked for an online website, and while the two worlds can be merged, I personally find the magazine work to be of a much higher quality and loved the time spent crafting a monthly issue, rather than the sometimes half hour that went into the next article to feed the daily traffic level that needed to be met! I'm more of a fan of the old world in that regard, at least with magazines and more image related mediums! (One exception in my mind is blogs run by passionate individuals -- they do a great job at merging these two worlds I think, sometimes much better than the big corporate websites, because there is an artistic passion behind all the posts that can be lost in the corporate setting)

Imogen was a strong character who I cheered for! Her struggles with health, her passion for her children, her love of her job -- I adored her! And I sort of liked the juxtaposition of the editor in chief being the nice one and the new up in comer being the evil boss, a new age Devil Wears Prada!

Eve was the only character that sort of brought the book down a slight notch, keeping it from a true 5-star in my book! I just found her to be a little too caricature-ish at times and a little too unrealistic, but not enough to really take away from the reading experience!

Highly recommended, especially to people like me who enjoy reading about the behind the scenes of the fashion and print world! ...more

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Apr 09, 2015 Debbie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: net-galley-books, ebooks

I absolutely loved this book even though I spent most of the time I was reading wanting to slap the crap out of Eve. What a horrible, horrible person she is. If she spent as much time working on her app as she did trying to undermine others. It may of worked. But then again, nah, it was all about her. I have never seen such an egotistical person in all my life, well ...

I felt so sorry for Imogene and knew exactly how she felt. At my last job, I was supposed to train this brand new college gradua ...more

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Lucy Sykes has worked in the fashion world as a stylist, fashion editor, and fashion director. For six years Lucy was the fashion director at Marie Claire magazine, and was most recently fashion director for Rent the Runway. Her own children’s clothing line, Lucy Sykes New York, was sold in more than a hundred department stores worldwide, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, and ...more

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“Imogen sometimes wondered if people weren't letting social media dictate their entire lives. Did they choose to go to one party over another because it would look better on Instagram? Did they decide to read a store just so they could tweet about it? Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?” — 9 likes

“Had it not been for that apartment and that sense of ambition that can only be born out of struggle, she wouldn’t be who she was today.” — 3 likes

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