The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada is all about the evil boss from hell and her unfortunate employee. It's like a metaphore where the devil represents Miranda Priestly and her victim, Andrea Sachs. You see, Andrea's a graduate from Brown who majors in journalism. She wants to write but than again she can't find a proper job that requires her to write and so she landed on a job as a personal assistant for Miranda Priestly, a so-called prominent figure in fashion in Runway. Well, Runway is a fashion magazine in case you don't know. Along the way, she met Eduardo and James who are both eccentric in their own ways. Not to mention, Emily another of Miranda's personal assistant.

Part of Andrea's job is to fullfill every Miranda requests no matter how ridiculous it can be and it certainly has nothing to do with writing or whatsoever. There was once she has to fetch Miranda's pet dog from the vet to its home. She even has to do Miranda's laundry which Miranda gladly pile near Andrea's table. No matter how ridiculous Miranda's requests are, somehow she managed to fullfill it with the help of Emily of course. She even have to get two advance copies of the new Harry Potter book for her twins before it hit the stores. Crazy. If my boss were to call me in the middle of the night, I would have quit immediately, but not Andrea. She continued working in Runway with hopes that she might get promoted like all the girls before her and maybe even get to write for The New Yorker. Yeah right. A job every girl would die for. Nuts.

Her hectic work life strains her relationship with her boyfriend, Alex and her friendship with her best friend, Lily. Not to mention her family. She has to cancel every date with Alex just to satisfy every Miranda's ridiculous requests. Even when Lily found a new apartment that both of them can live in, she's not there with her. As the story progresses, we realise that Lily may be alcoholic. She's probably stressed out due to her Ph.D studies and Andrea's not there for her. The one day, Alex decided to take a break from their relationship. More like breakup. Still, Andrea continues to be Miranda's slave. She even flirted with Christian, the best-selling author while she's still on a relationship with Alex.

Then one day, Andrea has to fly to Paris to accompany Miranda to fashion shows and parties since Emily's down with mono and can't make it. In the process, she miss the chance of seeing her nephew, Isaac. While she's there, Lily's involved in an accident and it was pretty serious. In fact the doctor said that she was lucky to be alive. Alive she may be, she'll have to face the consequences since her alcohol level was very high at that time and she still took the wheel. Still, Andrea refuse to go home for the sake of her best friend who was in the hospital.

Finally when Miranda commanded Andrea to get her twins' passports renew as soon as possible although it's impossible, she finally decided to quit and fly back home to be with her family and friend. While she's out of job, she wrote a 2000-word piece and send it to various women magazines and as luck have it, her piece caught the eye of a certain Seventeen editor and wa la, she got 3000 bucks for it. Better still, the editor have contacts in The New Yorker and so, Andrea's life is back on track.

Well, this novel is okay for me and you can catch the movie adaptation in cinemas soon starring Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs and the one and only Meryl Streep as the boss from hell, Miranda Priestley.