Name: The Second Assistant
ISBN: 9780452286108

Clare Naylor

Mimi Hare

A former congressional intern who takes a job as second assistant at a powerful Hollywood talent agency, Elizabeth Miller copes with the trials, tribulations, and dirty dealings of the film world.

A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder

The Second Assistant

stopped after 50 pages because too clichey and catty. maybe it's me, though.

Lizzie Miller, promoted to a position as first assistant to new agency president Scott Wagner, rises up the Hollywood ladder and struggles to keep her feet on the ground.

A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain

The First Assistant

Tanya Sutton

This is a really entertaining read! Light and fluffy, a great airplane read.

This book is highly entertaining. It's very similar to The Devil Wears Prada in it's style, and is a great plane read.

This was a great find. I enjoyed every minute of this book!

Just as much fun as the first one... great read!

Kourtney

Combine one part Hollywood Car Wash, one part Devil Wears Prada, and 2 parts Hollywood blackmail mixed with the Oscars and you have yourself the First Assistant. 

This book wasn't as good of a read as The Second Assistant, and that for me was disappointing because I really enjoyed the first book. For me it felt as though things just happened too easily for this naive character of Lizzie. Once again here is a character who sticks her head in the sand (instead of filing she burned papers so she could play Sudoku? She was shoving bills in drawers and went on a spending spree? Shopaholic series anyone?) and by sticking her head in the sand things just happen for her if she sheds a few tears? Here was the chance to make a character take control of her life and show the world she would not buckle, but instead she runs off to Thailand to be a teenager's assistant.

And thank goodness for that plot point because the one redeeming quality of this book was the character of Emerald. Too bad Lizzie didn't stay in Thailand because the book would have been salvaged with her more in the front line. 

My one wish - have a spinoff book of Emerald's life! Then I can redeem this book by thinking of it as the book that introduced me to Emerald.

The Second Assistant A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder

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