I'm so sick of the soapbox/look-down-your-nose approach all her books take. I've read everything she's written so far, and I have to say that each book is more bitter than the last and this one is by far the worst. I quite honestly may have read my last Jennifer Weiner book. And you know? When certain young women? End statements with a high-pitched questioning voice? Drove me bonkers. She sounds like a fairly young person who hasn't quite got the hang of adding important inflections here and there. The narrator only added velocity to my mental pitching of this book. Also, she seems a little creepy and stalkerish as she creates relationships in her head with fellas who have shown no interest in her whatsoever. She is just so damned mopey and broken to a point beyond empathy. I also had a difficult time with the incredibly whiny main character, Ruth. However, for me, the description of the biz significantly slowed down the action in the story enough to make me toss it. If this is an area of great interest to you, by all means, pick it up. The book involves the television industry and she spends a good chunk of the book describing the process of writing and producing a television show in painstaking detail. I had abandoned this book and went back to try to give it another shot since I've loved a number of Jennifer Weiner's novels.
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