The Subway Girls -

Susie Orman Schnall

St. Martin's Griffin

2018

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-13: 9781250169761

In 1949, dutiful and ambitious Charlotte's dream of a career in advertising is shattered when her father demands she help out with the family business. Meanwhile, Charlotte is swept into the glamorous world of the Miss Subways beauty contest, which promises irresistible opportunities with its Park Avenue luster and local fame status. But when her new friend―the intriguing and gorgeous fellow-participant Rose―does something unforgivable, Charlotte must make a heart-wrenching decision that will change the lives of those around her forever.

Nearly 70 years later, outspoken advertising executive Olivia is pitching the NYC subways account in a last ditch effort to save her job at an advertising agency. When the charismatic boss she’s secretly in love with pits her against her misogynistic nemesis, Olivia’s urgent search for the winning strategy leads her to the historic Miss Subways campaign. As the pitch date closes in on her, Olivia finds herself dealing with a broken heart, an unlikely new love interest, and an unexpected personal connection to Miss Subways that could save her job―and her future.

The Subway Girls is the charming story of two strong women, a generation apart, who find themselves up against the same eternal struggle to find an impossible balance between love, happiness, and ambition.

Resenhas (1)

3 (Bom)

The Subway Girls' contest in 1949 was the most interesting thing about the story

The Subway Girls is a book about women written by a woman, and this immediately catches my attention.

Authors that use more than one point of view, in this case, Schnall used two characters pov: Charlotte and Olivia, are brave because there's always a chance that the reader will get more attached to one of them, instead of both. That was what happened while I was reading it, and I decided to give this book 3.5 stars because, in my opinion, Charlotte's story was way more complex, original and thought-provoking than Olivia's.

I loved to see the dynamics between two or more female characters, those passages were nicely written, but the interactions with men in general, specially Olivia's romantic interests, just fell flat for me, they didn't have charisma and I didn't care much for them.

The Subway Girls' contest in 1949 was so far, the most interesting thing about the book.

Anyway, I liked how everything ended, so I recommend this book if you are into female-centered dramas.

Thanks to NetGalley for my copy for an honest review.