Gotta say, I was pretty dissapointed with this one. I remember it was a huge hit 15 years ago so it has been on my tbr list for a long time. A lot of telling, infodumping, characters making no sense. Why would Andrea work for so long in terrible conditions (almost humanly immpossible) just to get a CHANCE to do what she wants later? Why she has no self-asteem, why was she so easily brainwashed?! She wasn't poor, she had nice upringing and supportive family and a great boyfriend. I just don't get her motivation - are newyorkers really that job-crazy? Everything seems unrealistic, it was bad even for brainless fun. Nothing happened almost the whole book. Like the author wrote it just to say FUCK YOU to some rich person that frustrated her. Interested to see how did the sequel go because I like to be annoyed, apparently.