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Everybody Rise by Stephanie Clifford

Everybody Rise

by Stephanie Clifford

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  • Aug 2015, 384 pages
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  • Marybeth T. (Bellingham, WA)
    Hoping for something better
    I liked this book, but I was hoping for something a little bit better. It was a book I could pick up and put down. Not really a page turner for me. It was fun reading about the different social groups and how people get sucked in. All in all it was okay. Would be a good beach read for the summer.
  • GH Las Vegas
    Not what I was hoping for
    I was excited to receive this book but truly from the first page I knew it was not the book I was hoping it would be. The characters were unlikeable and barely developed, the language was flat (i.e. I did not re-read a single sentence or word for want of experiencing the wit or sharpness of it again), the story presented nothing that had not been told before, the ending was roughly as expected and I sincerely found the story lines rather depressing. I believe had I not read the cover reviews that promised hilarity, gorgeous language, glamorous inhabitants and an Edith Wharton 19th century like novel I may have liked it a touch more but still only a touch. There are far, far better books of this genre.
  • Julie G. (West Hartford, CT)
    Everybody Rise
    Perhaps my lukewarm response to this book is due to the fact that I do not know any people like the ones portrayed in the story. I am sure they do exist, but I found them all so unappealing that I could not bring myself to care about any of them. Adding that to a fairly predictable story line, left me disappointed with this debut novel.
  • Jill S. (Chicago, IL)
    Social Climbing Revisied
    I've rarely seen such buzz preceding a book's publication and I do believe it will appeal greatly to a certain audience: those who can't get enough of old-money New York society. Not dissimilar to Messud's Emperor's Children, or Macy's Spoiled, the book read like today's answer to a 19th century novel about class with whiffs of Austen and Wharton. It's an ambitious book and an entertaining one, although the "money and ambition" message of inglorious climbers doesn't quite resonate as much today.

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