Lauren Weisberger 5-Book Collection

5 books and I'm exhausted - the inconsistency, the cookie cutter characters (at least 2 characters in different books calling their nanny/housemaid "mommy/mom" because they didn't know that they weren't acually their mom until five years old, always having the "slutty", confident, beautiful without trying best friend, someone who has done culinary school etc) as well as the pretty random plot "twists" ("hmmm... nothing is happening, I probably should have the character do something - let's get her to quit"), paired with a unreflected main character just - it's boring and reads like fan fiction and a self-insert story by the author (I can just imagine her putting together decorations, moodboards and outfits on pinterest, instead of thinking about the characters. Which most of them are writers of some kind or an other. And if they aren't their husband is (Last night at chateau marmont)

The stories are neither really character nor plot driven - it feels like the plot is there to link certain moods and gorgeous fashion opportunities.
1) Devil wears Prada - picked the ebook up because I really liked the movie, was funny but not as entertaining as the movie. I mean Miranda Priestleys speech about the blue sweater? Don't remember it being in the book.
2) Revenge wears Prada - more whiny, paranoid, unreflected 13 year old in the grown up body of Andy Sacks
3) Everyone worth knowing: Bette is just an awful name, sry. Also she has no character, but the author makes a point to write/describe her parents, uncle, coworkers etc and sometimes making small remarks what Bette thinks about this and that. But those remarks stay pretty bland too.
There are teases about some real character stories, but they're left out all together. Self insertion books are about imagining you're there, not empathizing with the characters, right?
4) Chasing Harry Winston: reading about Adriana was funny, Emmy feels like a mousy girl, she describes herself as being over her ex, but is obviously stalking him (like turning up in their old apartement until he changes the locks - creepy and not ok) and Leigh -oh well Leigh just seems to be a gimmicky character who's as bland as she describes her fiance. And I love bookish girls in the regular. No plot developement really and in the end the characters have not evolved although some things happened and they're at the same place they started...
5) Last night at chateau marmont: frustraiting, boring and if there wasn't the husband I could really dislike the wife, because she has some really cool descriptions in the begining, but acts very differently than I would imagine someone like that. Oh well. And there's a dog - like in "everyone worth knowing" (there's a parrot in Chasing Harry Winston - essentially a dog like Ari by Jaiden Animations ;-))

This books are for you if - you're too poor to be a real fashionista but would love to be one - and your motivation gets expressed in Pinterests^^ Then I really think you would enjoy this as a vacation/relaxation chick lit. If you're more in the book for a storys sake than self-insertion - don't bother.