One of the blurbs on the back of the book was comparing the work if Jane Austen and Dorothy Parker got together, but I heartily disagree. Sure there was the standard frilliness of emptiness, but both Austen and Parker always have an underlying desire of change. Franson never makes her character come to be the agent of change.

When the main character decided to change finally, it is the after an assault by someone famous - that became her turning point and how she turned. It wasn't on her own accord, she reacted and therefore change. She could have evolved earlier in the novel, but Franson, in the last pages, decided that a male character would cause her to change - which is so typical that I just sighed when I read it in the book. Then I was disappointed that the male trope is still one of the significant catalysts of change in women's stories.

The novel is okay, shows the vapidness of early adulthood but the main character doesn't change in my humble opinion.