![]() ![]() Andy describes it as “simple, dramatic, effortless,” but it sounds like something one might use to unblock a toilet. There are a number of problems with this setup, one being that Andy apparently managed to survive for a decade in New York City by working as a “contributing editor writing for a wedding blog.” But more troublesome is the name of the magazine, The Plunge. “Revenge” is set 10 years later, and Andy is now editor-in-chief and part-owner of a hit bridal magazine she launched with her former Runway coworker Emily. (Full disclosure: I spent the summer of 2008 as an editorial intern at Vogue, where I was sent to Starbucks a gazillion times a day but suffered no worse ignominy than being forced to confess to a fashion editor that my dress was purchased at Target.) ![]() The reader is tempted to assume that Weisberger had dollar signs in her eyes, rather than inspiration, when she wrote it. But unfortunately this second outing reads less like haute couture and more like Nordstrom Rack. Andy is back in this sequel, “Revenge Wears Prada,” pitted once again against her former boss, Miranda Priestly (based on the immaculately bobbed Vogue editor Anna Wintour). What “The Devil Wears Prada” lacked in writerly polish, it made up for with fascinating characters and a brutally, sometimes hilariously honest look at the fashion publishing industry and its quirks. “Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns” by Lauren Weisberger. ![]()
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