When something is marketed as "The Devil Wears Prada for the influencer generation" I am immediately at attention. While I doubt I'll reread this as often as TDWP, I was thoroughly entertained. As someone who has personal experience with a "fun" job working for an emotional terrorist, this also brought back my eye twitch, so that was a gift in itself.

Harper has lost her job in the publishing industry and is desperate to stop relying on her best friend's generosity and spare room in Manhattan (lol). Her life goes from 0 to 100 when she's hired as a visionary support strategist for a hugely popular lifestyle influencer, Charlotte Green, and relocates to Nashville, where she's immediately immersed in the company CULTure. 

The 9-5 is a myth here, but Harper's coworkers seem genuinely overjoyed to be spending their entire lives spreading Charlotte's message of positivity and white feminism. Yay! Harper literally can't afford to quit, so decides she might just be jaded from past jobs and needs to lighten up. This becomes easier when Charlotte starts to recognize Harper's efforts. Even though it turns her new work friendships into something more like rivalries, and she's constantly on guard to make sure Charlotte doesn't get herself canceled, Harper drinks the kool-aid. Her job is her life, and anyone who expresses concern at that is just threatened by #girlbosses. 

The author of this book famously worked for Rachel Hollis, wink wink, nudge nudge, so there's definitely a juicy gossip angle to reading this that makes it hard to put down. I would have rated it higher, but I wanted more from the ending. I liked how things wrapped up, for the most part, but wish that we'd got to read those events play out rather than get them as a flash forward. A lot of what I liked about this book was how the emotional manipulation rang true and was written realistically, so watching the results of that play out would have been rewarding to read, I think. But maybe that's just wishful thinking for my personal experiences.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, & the author for the advance copy in exchange for my honest review.