I suspect a trade was made here: a genuinely brilliant book for a guaranteed bestseller. If so, it worked. The book hit the Times list. But readers who wanted more got less. The pattern wears you down: Sarah colludes with her oppressors, suffers a personal crisis, gets reinspired, colludes again — chapter after chapter, until she stays too long and gets fired. Editors failed her well before the final pages. The last two or three chapters redeem it. Her voice as an attorney and policy analyst comes back sharp, and the writing earns its subtitle again. But she leaves real questions unanswered. She says she was fired — yet when Meta's lawyers came after the Senate hearings warning her not to comment about Joel Kaplan, they clearly had something on her. Her severance agreement. Her stock shares. A more demanding editor would have made her answer those questions. That editor would have also given us a better book.
The pattern wears you down: Sarah colludes with her oppressors, suffers a personal crisis, gets reinspired, colludes again — chapter after chapter, until she stays too long and gets fired. Editors failed her well before the final pages.
The last two or three chapters redeem it. Her voice as an attorney and policy analyst comes back sharp, and the writing earns its subtitle again.
But she leaves real questions unanswered. She says she was fired — yet when Meta's lawyers came after the Senate hearings warning her not to comment about Joel Kaplan, they clearly had something on her. Her severance agreement. Her stock shares. A more demanding editor would have made her answer those questions.
That editor would have also given us a better book.