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Revenge Wears Prada
Revenge Wears Prada
Revenge Wears Prada
Audiobook12 hours

Revenge Wears Prada

Written by Lauren Weisberger

Narrated by Megan Hilty

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

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With brand-new scenes, The New York Times bestseller and sequel you’ve been waiting for—the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Devil Wears Prada!

Almost a decade has passed since Andy Sachs quit the job “a million girls would die for” working for Miranda Priestly at Runway magazine—a dream that turned out to be a nightmare. Andy and Emily, her former nemesis and co-assistant, have since joined forces to start a high end bridal magazine, The Plunge, which has quickly become required reading for the young and stylish. Now they get to call all the shots: Andy writes and travels to her heart’s content; Emily plans parties and secures advertising like a seasoned pro. Even better, Andy has met the love of her life. Max Harrison, scion of a storied media family, is confident, successful, and drop-dead gorgeous. Their wedding will be splashed across all the society pages as their friends and family gather to toast the glowing couple. Andy Sachs is on top of the world. But karma’s a bitch. The morning of her wedding, Andy can’t shake the past. And when she discovers a secret letter with crushing implications, her wedding-day jitters turn to cold dread. Andy realizes that nothing—not her husband, nor her beloved career—is as it seems. She never suspected that her efforts to build a bright new life would lead her back to the darkness she barely escaped ten years ago—and directly into the path of the devil herself...Featuring all new scenes with the villainess we love to hate (hate to love?), Miranda Priestly, Revenge Wears Prada in paperback is another publishing event!
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 4, 2013
ISBN9780743583831
Revenge Wears Prada
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Lauren Weisberger

Lauren Weisberger is the author of The Devil Wears Prada, which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, and become a huge success as a film. Her other novels have also been bestsellers. She lives in Connecticut with her family.

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I loved The Devil Wears Prada but this book is just…boring. I listened to probably two hours of it and then just couldn’t care anymore! I was glad to read the other reviews that told me how it ends so I don’t have to finish it!

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    En general fue una lectura muy amena, el primer punto de giro sucede desde el primer capítulo, lo cual me gustó porque te engancha. Sin embargo, pensé que la línea principal se iba a mantener por ese lado, en conjunto con algo que tuviera que ver con Miranda Priestly por supuesto.
    Y no fue así, empezaron a suceder cosas que no sentí que le aportarán algo a la historia. Se pudieron omitir y el fin hubiese sido el mismo.
    El protagonismo que tiene Miranda es casi nulo, pero spoiler alert, se sale con la suya. Por lo que ese giro casi al final en cuanto a la decisión que toma Andy, tanto en lo profesional y personal para mí fue lo más acertado. Pero el final final final, no me gustó para nada.
    En general, me mantuvo picada, fue una lectura ligera y entretenida que me ayudó mucho a no volverme loca con tanto estrés del trabajo y solo por eso le pondré 4 estrellas. Si la recomiendo, pero tampoco esperen una lectura que les cambie la vida. Cumple y listo.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I never read the first but saw the movie, so I have a feeling some things were changed from book to movie! Nevertheless, throughout the book I pictured Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Adam(?) Grenier - and of course Meryl Streep! - as I read the book.I liked it so much that I had a 1/3 of the way to go and didn't want to take it on a cross country plane ride so I went to my LIbraries Online and downloaded the audio book (there was no ebook available) so I could finish it! Didn't have to as I had my nose in the book from CT to Boston heading to the airport.It was a fun book to read!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I really enjoyed this! I read DWP over 10 years ago and I didn't love it but it was OK. I was surprised to realize how much I still remembered when I started reading this one.

    The narrator is great and the story is light-hearted, a bit feel-good but with somw interesting drama. I really loved the ending!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    OMG I did it!!! I finished the book!! Even though I keep increasing the speed. I like to listen to audiobooks when I do choirs, but damn… sometimes I felt extra punished with cleaning and the story. Spoilers———————————————————————————-I hated the baby stuff. But the baby/birth awareness was good. A lot of that goes unmentioned. Take a look at Reddit’s sub Regretful Parent. The theme of not telling, because I suffered- you need to suffer is too real. But yeah, misery loves company they say. All the characters got drama and so much cliché storylines. I understand I haven’t heard of this book. Probably not als well promoted in my country, because it wasn’t as good as the 1st. I just can’t like it. Maybe because so much has changed since 2013 and probably because I was in my 20 when I read the 1st book and now I’m in my 40s. 3 stars for neutral , because I appreciated Emily being child free. That’s All
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I seem to have picked up the wrong book, or there was a printing error. The synopsis on the back promised me a return of the boss from hell, intent on revenge. Sounded ok, but that's not what I got from the book. The boss returned, but she wasn't there for revenge. She was there to do business, nothing more. There was a story along those lines hidden within the pages, but it got buried among numerous chapters about a girl who had a baby and did some stuff. And that was about it.

    This was written as a sequel to a pretty successful story that, although it can't be described as a classic, had a good storyline to it, and a compelling villain, if not main character. This book had none of those things. Eveything was watered down. Not one of the characters was interesting. Even Miranda herself, with the exception of maybe one exchange, was downright friendly. It seemed to me as though the author got bored with the story and carried on writing while her mind was on other things. I didn't want to read about babies and every last detail of someone's taste in interior decoration. I wanted the characters present on the first story. I wanted the villain. And why was it written in third person, and not first as the first book was? In that book the reader was in the thick of it; here, they were distanced. I don't understand the change.

    I didn't like the ending either. The last page was just sappy and an easy way out for the writer, in my opinion.

    If there's a third installment it can stay in the library.



  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Digital audiobook narrated by Megan HiltySubtitle: The Devil ReturnsThis is a follow-up to the immensely popular The Devil Wears Prada.Several years after the ending of the first book’s plot, Andy and her former nemesis, Emily, join forces and create a high-end bridal magazine that garners them much attention … including from Miranda Priestly, their former boss at Runway. Meanwhile, both have gotten married and are navigating the ups and downs of the newly married.This book deals with the drama of the early working life of most singles, and/or newly married couples. They have to juggle demands of their careers against the pull of the relationships. They’re not always sure whom to trust and sometimes overreact, while at other times giving in to intertia and the status quo. I have to say that Andy really irritated me. Her go-to position seemed to be to wait in silence, while feeling sick and tired of it all. Emily was equally clueless about friendship, dismissing Andy’s hesitancy in favor of her own ambition. I’d already read book three in the series (which focuses on Emily), so that may have colored my reactions. Megan Hilty does a fine job of narrating the audiobook. She sets a good pace and has clear diction, so I could easily understand even when listening at double speed.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I never read the first but saw the movie, so I have a feeling some things were changed from book to movie! Nevertheless, throughout the book I pictured Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Adam(?) Grenier - and of course Meryl Streep! - as I read the book.I liked it so much that I had a 1/3 of the way to go and didn't want to take it on a cross country plane ride so I went to my LIbraries Online and downloaded the audio book (there was no ebook available) so I could finish it! Didn't have to as I had my nose in the book from CT to Boston heading to the airport.It was a fun book to read!
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    It’s the first time that I was so disappointed in a book and I’ve read many. This is the Kindle UK edition I’m talking about. Whoever edited this book to check for errors has not done his/her job. Sentences are left unfinished and that’s only the start of it, this was *for the whole book*. And I spotted a double-obligation, namely ‘must have to’, which grated against my reading and tainted my reading. With unfinished sentences in dialogues and such mistakes (there are too many to name but a few), this was the first time I saw such a writing style. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve read the first novel, but it’s as if someone else wrote the second one, because it is *that* different. This purchase was a waste of money. I won’t be reading any book by Weisberger again.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I LOVED The Devil Wears Prada. Seriously my love for that book was something fierce. I may have loved it so much that I spend a few lunch periods my junior year reading it instead of socializing. Although that was true of many lunch periods that year. When I discovered that Weisberger was writing a sequel I could hardly contain my excitement. I really had enjoyed everything she had written thus far and went into my read with high expectations which were crushed almost immediately as Andy began her narration.

    Who is this chick? She freaks out about the smallest things and is beyond passive-aggressive when it comes to any and every issue in her life. I wanted to literally smack her. . . until she suddenly grew a pair three chapters from the end of the novel. Let's spend a few moments discussing some of the issues she faces in this novel.

    Issue number 1: Her mother-in-law doesn't like her and she discovers this fact and the fact that her husband-to-be ran into his ex in Bermuda in a note on her wedding day. How does she handle this? She walks down the aisle, is tested for STDs and avoids her new husband, because clearly that is what a sane, rational person does. Come to find out there is something else going on that is affecting her emotions but seriously been there, done that. This girl needs some major counseling.

    Issue number 2: She works with Emily and they establish a magazine which gets an offer from Elias-Clark a.k.a. Miranda Priestly's office. Emily wants to sell, Andy doesn't. Instead of facing the issue head on she spends the majority of the novel skirting around and avoiding the issue. So you have some PTSD. Get yourself a counselor or something and deal with your issues.

    I think I would have enjoyed this book so much more if Andy would have grown a pair much earlier on. Instead I spent my time growing my dislike for her and finding myself suddenly enjoying every moment with Miranda.

    With that said I should probably explain why I'm still giving this a 3 out of 5 stars. There is a beautifully written twist that I kind of saw coming. I appreciate all the foreshadowing to this twist found throughout the novel and have to give Weisberger some major props.

    However, I may just pretend this book never happened.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I am abandoning this book, something i NEVER do unless a book is truly atrocious..... I have way too many books on my "to read" list to waste any more time with this snoozefest! I enjoyed the first book but i had to "force" myself to try and read this and in the end i gave up.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This book did not live up to The Devil Wears Prada. It was a so-so book. I don't find it realistic that Emily and Andy became best friends and started a magazine, I thought from the title that Miranda was going to be a huge part of the book, and I feel like I've read this book before. I kept looking to see when it was published because the storyline felt too familiar, even the conclusion. It was just okay for me.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I got this book for free from the publisher - I'm not sure how or why. I freely admit it's not a book I would have bought, having read the author's previous work by borrowing from the library. I liked "The Devil Wears Prada" and one other, something about the Chateau Marmont(?) well enough, but this was just padded within an inch of its life, nearly to the point of suffocation. SPOILER ALERTS: First, I figured out that Andy was enciente almost instantly because why make such a big deal out of flu or food poisoning. Second, the ongoing disagreement between Emily and Andy over the contract - holy cow, how long did that drag on. We already know Miranda Priestly is a horrible person so the scenes involving her didn't actually add anything to her character. She's still as nasty as the day is long and who needs to spend time with someone that unpleasant - she could have been left entirely offstage and it would not have made the book any worse and might have improved it.This was a largely pathetic excuse for a sequel made tolerable only by the author's ability to write acceptable sentences which is remarkable for her age group. That, or she has an amazing editor. No matter what, this is definitely not worth the money that you would spend on it if you are not on some Simon & Schuster mailing list.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    More than 10 years after Andy threw her cell phone into the fountain in Paris and told Miranda Priestly to **** off, she is back and publishing her own magazine. Even more surprising is that her arch-nemesis Emily has become her best friend and business partner. Things are going swimmingly for Andy … after a few hiccups she is married … although unexpected, she has a baby on the way and the magazine is doing well. Until – dumm-da-dumm – Miranda Priestly steps back into the picture.

    This could have been such a good sequel to The Devil Wears Prada. All the elements were available to make this a wonderful story but Ms. Weisberger changed Andy’s “voice” so much that I could feel no happiness, compassion or outrage for her as she was going through her life in this book. Andy just seemed beaten down by the most mundane everyday things and whined throughout the whole book. I kept turning the pages and reading on in hopes of finding the strong independent young woman from the first book, but unfortunately never did. I’m sure the planned movie version will be great (if they reassemble the original cast) but, for me, the book fell short.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Besides all the critics I like it more this book than the first one. We see how Andy is more mature and stood up for herself, we see how she has a stronger character. The story can be shorter, that is for sure. There are many chapters that can be shorter or just deleted, but still is a nice chick li to read. You know in advance that is not the best book you will ever read and for sure it will not change your life, but for sure it will entertain you as long as it last.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    didn't read the first of the series but LOVED this book. a page turner that kept me going from the getgo. totally excellent.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Review originally published on my blog: AWordsWorth.blogspot.comI loved this book so much more than I thought I would. It's better than The Devil Wears Prada, by a long shot. (You should know: I bailed on Devil because it was getting on my nerves. I love-love-love the movie, but the book got to be too much. I also bailed on Everyone Worth Knowing, because it felt like a repeat of Devil, just a different industry). But Revenge Wears Prada, now there's a story!Revenge picks up about ten years after the events of Devil. Andy and Emily are now best friends and business partners (there's a shocker!), running the super hot wedding magazine The Plunge. As the book opens, it's Andy's wedding day - marrying investment golden boy and heartthrob son of one of New York's leading familes, Max Harrison. Everything is a fairy tale, better than a fairy tale because this is real life. Then Andy finds a letter to Max from his mother, and her world rattles on its axis. She pushes through, makes the wedding happen, and decides she can handle this. She must. So why is she so sick over things that may mean nothing at all? (Who doesn't see where this is going?) As if all these huge - and a little unexpected - life changes weren't enough to handle, Miranda Priestly waltzes back into Andy's life. While Emily is ecstatic that Miranda wants to buy their magazine, Andy is distraught. It's as if her worst nightmare came true, and nobody understands why she doesn't want to be back in Miranda's control again. Not even Max. Especially not Max, who views it as the ultimate sign of success. As the drama and tension builds, Andy is forced to make some really big, really tough decisions.I really feel like Revenge is a more balanced story than Devil, and I love the way Andy really grows and matures. She's human and perhaps a little dramatic at times, but she's real. She's growing. She knows what she wants, and what she doesn't want, and when the time comes she makes the tough decisions that make her happiest. And of course, all things work out as they should in the long run.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I quite liked The Devil Wears Prada so was interested in the follow-up, but it really didn't replicate any of the fun of the original and Andy was just, well, whiny. As for the story, there really wasn't one. The whole thing was quite flat.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The book was somewhere between good and ok. I did read from chapter 7 to the end in one session because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. However, Andy seemed ....mousey? compared to the last time we saw her. When reading this I interpreted the recurring characters (Andy, Emily, Nigel, and Miranda) as their on screen versions from the movie. So with Andy this time around, she didn't come off as confident, she came off as more like Mia from Princess Diaries (movie) with all the worry and creating drama where there wasn't really any. I found her annoying at times. I was proud of how she stood up for herself at the end despite the fact that I saw that situation coming from 100+ pages ahead.Either way, I've read all of Lauren Weisberger's mainstream hits and I'll continue to do so!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    ** spoiler alert ** The Devil Wears Prada is one of my favorite books/movies of all times. So obviously when I heard that Lauren Weisberger was making a sequel I was beyond estatic. I did like the premise of this story, but I didn't like Andy in this book at all, which made me not love it as much as I wanted too. I felt she was all over the place and whiney, and don't even get me started on Emily, I couldn't stand her caddy, bossiness either, they both drove me nuts.I did like the story but hated the decisions that Andy made, which made it very hard for me to root for her. My biggest problem with her was her marrying Max, I couldn't fathom why she had so many resolutions and second thoughts, but still went through with it, so obviously I couldn't really feel compassion towards her in regards to her divorce. I did love Miranda though and she was just as cold and heartless as she was in the first book, but I wish there was more of her in the story, and honestly with the title of this book, I thought that Andy would seek revenge towards Miranda, and take her down and give her a taste of her own medicine, but Miranda won in the end, so this book was definitely not what I had thought it would be.I was happy to revisit these characters, but the story did fall a bit flat for me, and I expected a lot more, seeing this book was second to a book that many readers know and love. If you liked The Devil Wears Prada, I would still give this book a chance, just maybe not have high expectations that it's going to be like the first book.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    It was good, though there were sections that could have been taken out, descriptions that just, in all honesty, did not matter to the plot of the book. I never read the first one (only saw the movie) so I don't know how this compares but it was a decent book. I will admit however, after reading through half of it, I knew she wouldn't stay with Max. He was too perfect.. Overall, I enjoyed the book.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Well, this was about what I expected. A beach read. Nothing more, nothing less.

    ***************Warning: Spoilers Ahead*******************************

    The Good: Andy's transition from writer back into fashion/bridal magazines is well explained and realistic - freelancing is a bitch, and it's a hard way to make a living. She falls back on writing for a wedding blog, which eventually leads to the bridal magazine.

    The evolution of Andy's and Emily's friendship is also pretty well detailed in some flashbacks and is believable.

    Miranda also remains pretty true to form, being evil-bording-on-psychotic. We do see a "nice" or "gentler" side to her here, though of course it is only in the service of pursing what she wants.

    The meh: Emily and Andy are both suffering various mental and emotional problems because of their previous association with Miranda. Andy deals with near-PTSD-like symptoms which, when Miranda re-enters their lives, greatly magnifies her fears and panics. Elias-Clark, Runway's publisher, wants to buy Andy and Emily's magazine, and since Miranda now runs the entire magazine division there, that would make her their boss again. Emily, meanwhile, goes from hating Miranda to wanting, again, to try and please her, no matter what. It reminded me of an abusive relationship in a way - where the abused party keeps returning to his or her abuser. It's not unrealistic, but Weisberger isn't a strong enough writer to really make these kinds of overwhelming emotions and mental issues come alive on the page, so readers are annoyed, rather than sympathetic.

    The bad: Meet Max (Andy's husband), Barbara (Andy's MIL), and Miles (Emily's husband), straight from the cardboard-cutout-character department. Max is Andy's wealthy, former playboy husband (of course, he claims Andy has reformed him) from a wealthy media family, and his mother is a society woman who disapproves of Andy and wishes he would marry someone "more appropriate." Max is under pressure because his recently-deceased father made some poor business decisions, leaving both his family and his company in an uncomfortable financial position. Max ultimately goes behind Andy's back with Emily to sell The Plunge to Elias-Clark, leading Andy to resign from the magazine and divorce Max. Of course, Emily and the rest of the staff are fired by Miranda shortly after the acquisition. The book ends with the biggest cliche possible - Andy (and her daughter Clementine (really? CLEMENTINE?)) getting back together with Alex, Andy's boyfriend who dumped her at the end of the first book.

    Speaking of Alex, there's a side plot throughout the novel of Andy being somewhat obsessed with and unable to give the thought of Alex up, even though they broke up 10 YEARS AGO. Of course, Alex reappears in her life just as she and Max are about to fall apart. It turns out Alex has been dating a girl in Andy's moms' support group (the girl isn't a mom but an aunt, who attends the group with her neice, whom she babysits, because her sister-in-law is under the mistaken impression that the group is a play group, not a support group (WTF?)). Anyway, Andy has no idea that the boyfriend is Alex, since the girlfriend calls him "Xander" - until he shows up at a group brunch that the husbands/boyfriends are invited to. The whole thing is so convoluted and stupid, it's hardly worth talking about (though I do seem to have just wasted an entire paragraph doing just that).

    Then there's the unbelievability of the main plot -the sale of The Plunge to Elias-Clark. The Plunge is doing well, but not well enough to warrant maximum interest from E-C. In the "real world," a giant like Elias-Clark does not put up with stalling from a minor publication that poses no great threat to any of their existing properties. When the first sale is refused, the price isn't magically upped, the deal goes away and the giant pursues another prize.

  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Like many sequels, this one falls a little short. Andy Sachs is now almost a decade out of her job with Miranda Priestly. She is writing for a wedding blog, doing some freelancing and, except for night terrors, has recovered from her year at "The Runway." Then she and her now best friend/ former enemy, Emily, start a glossy, high end wedding magazine called, "The Plunge." Coincidentally, Andy is, herself taking the plunge, not with Alex but with high society, Max. She also discovers that she is prematurely pregnant, so the first year of her marriage is not what she expected. Nor is starting a magazine when Miranda Priestly comes back into her life looking to acquire Andy and Emily's "baby" for millions. Lots of Upper East Side young married material, but not as intrinsically interesting as the original. Still, there could be a movie sequel and for a not-so-challenging read, this is fine. BTW, my mother-in-law told my husband to his face that he shouldn't have married me on our wedding day (37 years ago). That little piece is NOT fiction. :(
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I was so excited to see this book on the shelf at Tesco last month. I hadn't even known a sequel was being written, much less already published. That said, it was incredibly disappointing. Part of the allure of The Devil Wears Prada was the peek into the world of high fashion that it offered. Another was Miranda, the sort of character you love to hate. The only bit of the former this book offers is the occasional rundown of designer names in outfits, and the latter doesn't actually show up until you're a good part of the way through the book. Even then, she's hardly a main factor in the storyline. The plot is pretty much all about the trials and tribulations of Andy's life. Ten years have passed since the end of the first book, and she's still agonizing over Miranda and having flashbacks to her days as a junior assistant. She's in her thirties now, but is as angsty as an overdramatic teenager. "OMG, I just found this note from Max's mom right before I'm supposed to walk down the aisle. It couldn't POSSIBLY be foreshadowing, so here I go!" And later: "Omg omg omg, I can't stop thinking about this note. Sorry, buddy. You aren't getting laid, because ANGST. I know it would make sense to just ask you about it, but that would make this book way too short." You get the picture. All in all, I had such high hopes for this book and the potential for some awesome plotlines, but they just didn't pan out. It's a shame.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Predictable, characters are weak, not a good read. What was the revenge? Spoiler alert... I guess it was Miranda's when she took over Andy and Emily's magazine. What a dope Andy turned out to be.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I liked the book, but it was not as good as her other books.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I was very disappointed by this sequel. I really felt like Andy was not being true to herself throughout the whole book, or at least, until the very end. I just... didn't like it. ... so much disappointment for what could have been great.