Meghan's Reviews > Breathe In, Cash Out
Breathe In, Cash Out
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bookshelves: arcs, chick-lit, netgalley, published-2019, did-not-finish, read-2019
Jul 29, 2019
bookshelves: arcs, chick-lit, netgalley, published-2019, did-not-finish, read-2019
I received a copy of this book from Atria Books via Netgalley Thank you for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
This book was solicited to me because I read and enjoyed the third Devil Wears Prada book. I've also recently reread the first book, and I think I understand why those books worked for me and this one didn't. Reading The Devil Wears Prada in my thirties is a very different experience than reading it in my twenties... if I was in my twenties? (Doing the math, I was probably seventeen or eighteen?) I think that shift of perspective applies here too.
I am in my thirties, I work two streets over from Wall Street. Now granted, I don't have a job that requires me to work twenty hour days, nor does it thrive on being a starting ground for post college graduates to get some experience. But I get requests coming in at 2 PM that are needed by 4 PM and you know it's something that would take a week to do. I have worked entire weekends in order to get caught up, normally because I was travelling extensively for work. In other words, I may not quite understand what the main character is going through, but this book isn't an escape for me.
I nearly DNF'd this book at 10% because it was so much info dumping. I don't care about investment banking, and this book almost requires you to not understand the business world enough so that you can find investment banking fascinating. Investment banking =/= fashion magazine.
And on top of that, it's info dumping about the main character's life. Her mom died when she was young and her dad... who wasn't an investment banker... is dead set on his daughter being one? Look, I know there are people out there whose lives are influenced by their parents well past the point they should be, but if it isn't a "I am killing myself to follow in my parent's footsteps" I just don't get why someone would do that? (Also shout out to my amazing mother who would make her opinions on what I was doing, majoring in, or job possibilities known, but ultimately made it clear it was always my choice.)
The yoga part of this book... I get having dreams and I am ALL FOR the main character starting her own yoga studio. But an amateur yogi winning the gold in some international (or even national) yoga competition? When she has been practicing maybe two years? This was the point I realized this book was probably some self insert thing and I just didn't care.
And the whole accidentally sleeping with a boss. *vague shrug emoji*
Overall, I don't think this is a bad book, it just isn't for me.
This book was solicited to me because I read and enjoyed the third Devil Wears Prada book. I've also recently reread the first book, and I think I understand why those books worked for me and this one didn't. Reading The Devil Wears Prada in my thirties is a very different experience than reading it in my twenties... if I was in my twenties? (Doing the math, I was probably seventeen or eighteen?) I think that shift of perspective applies here too.
I am in my thirties, I work two streets over from Wall Street. Now granted, I don't have a job that requires me to work twenty hour days, nor does it thrive on being a starting ground for post college graduates to get some experience. But I get requests coming in at 2 PM that are needed by 4 PM and you know it's something that would take a week to do. I have worked entire weekends in order to get caught up, normally because I was travelling extensively for work. In other words, I may not quite understand what the main character is going through, but this book isn't an escape for me.
I nearly DNF'd this book at 10% because it was so much info dumping. I don't care about investment banking, and this book almost requires you to not understand the business world enough so that you can find investment banking fascinating. Investment banking =/= fashion magazine.
And on top of that, it's info dumping about the main character's life. Her mom died when she was young and her dad... who wasn't an investment banker... is dead set on his daughter being one? Look, I know there are people out there whose lives are influenced by their parents well past the point they should be, but if it isn't a "I am killing myself to follow in my parent's footsteps" I just don't get why someone would do that? (Also shout out to my amazing mother who would make her opinions on what I was doing, majoring in, or job possibilities known, but ultimately made it clear it was always my choice.)
The yoga part of this book... I get having dreams and I am ALL FOR the main character starting her own yoga studio. But an amateur yogi winning the gold in some international (or even national) yoga competition? When she has been practicing maybe two years? This was the point I realized this book was probably some self insert thing and I just didn't care.
And the whole accidentally sleeping with a boss. *vague shrug emoji*
Overall, I don't think this is a bad book, it just isn't for me.
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Reading Progress
July 1, 2019
– Shelved
July 1, 2019
– Shelved as:
to-read
July 1, 2019
– Shelved as:
arcs
July 1, 2019
– Shelved as:
chick-lit
July 1, 2019
– Shelved as:
netgalley
July 1, 2019
– Shelved as:
published-2019
July 23, 2019
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6.92%
"Literally in 20 pages:
1. "yoga fucking"
2. discussions of sexual acts before knowing the name of our main character(okay I went and looked back and this isn't true but still)
3. SO MUCH INFO DUMPING ABOUT INVESTMENT BANKING AND GOING TO PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOLS."
page
20
1. "yoga fucking"
2. discussions of sexual acts before knowing the name of our main character(okay I went and looked back and this isn't true but still)
3. SO MUCH INFO DUMPING ABOUT INVESTMENT BANKING AND GOING TO PRESTIGIOUS SCHOOLS."
July 29, 2019
– Shelved as:
did-not-finish
July 29, 2019
– Shelved as:
read-2019
