4 friends get together to begin a blog about their bosses who are overbearing and demeaning to women. They do this in secret, but then, the blog becomes viral and gets the attention of journalists and reporters. The women fear that their identities will be exposed and they will lose their jobs.
The book is interesting as it exposes what happens in the workplace, how women are expected to do menial tasks and are passed over in favor of men. ( )

And I thought I'd had a bad boss (luckily only one), these ladies set out for a little revenge.

FROM NETGALLEY: Best friends Cate, Lauren, Olivia and Max are overworked and underpaid assistants to some of the most powerful people in the entertainment industries. Like the assistants who came before them, the women know they have to pay their dues and abide the demeaning tasks and verbal abuse from their bosses in order to climb the ladders to their dream jobs.

But as they are passed over for promotions and the toxic office environments reach a breaking point, the women secretly start an anonymous blog detailing their experiences, which snowballs into hundreds of others coming forward with stories of their own. Confronted with newfound viral fame and the possibility of their identities being revealed, the assistants have to contend with the life-changing consequences of speaking out against those who refuse to share the power. ( )

If The Devil Wears Prada and Bridget Jones Diary had a baby it would be this book. I’m loving this book, the dialogue and most of the characters. Four friends in entry level positions in New York City work as assistants in various industries. All four women want to climb the ladder within their respective fields and have a successful career.

Cate is an assistant to the head of a huge book publisher. He requires her to do the administrative as well as personal jobs for him. Keep his calender but also get cupcakes to his son's school for a party, pick up dry cleaning, open his home in Vermont for his vacation.

Max is an assistant at a news station with goals to be journalist. She is sexually harrassed by the lead news anchor and does all the running for coffee and other minor tasks. Her male counterpart Charlie is never subjected to demeaning comments or asked to run out on errands.

Lauren dreams of being a script writer one day. She is an assistant to Pete and gets harrassed by one of the writers on the show. Go get the coffee and keep your mouth shut. Until she has enough of that treatment.

Olivia is an actor's assistant and has some of the same demeaning tasks as her friends. Go to a smelly unairconditioned warehouse to search for a sofa he wants delivered; try and take notes and keep his calendar while he is doing yoga naked. The B list actor Nate always dangles the idea of passing on a screen test of hers to someone who can help.

The ladies meet Thursdays to drink margaritas and unburden themselves to one another, the only people they can trust. Then they take the napkins with the written out grievences and burn them at the end of the night. One night they decide to start a website called Twentysomething and write out their stories anonymously. Thanks to the NDA (non disclosure agreements) they must use names like The Bossy One, The Emotional One, etc. Then it takes off. More women are telling their stories and the website becomes a sensation. People start to wonder, who are these women behind Twentysomething as it becomes newsworthy.

This book has sexual references and the occasional F bomb. This doesn't bother me but I know it does for some. The stories are believable as are the friendships and struggles. This is a story about women being impowered by one another and getting tired of being passed over for promotion and treated differently than their male counterparts.

I will definitely be looking for more by Amanda Pelligrino in the future.

Publication date December 21, 2021 by Harlequin. Genre: General Fiction Adult and Women's Fiction.

Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced reader's copy of this book. I was not compensated for the review, all opinions are mine. ( )