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I am mystified by the publicity hoopla that has surrounded this book. There are a million better books out there, yet this one gets a writeup in the NYT Book Review. It’s a shame -- the premise of Everybody Rise could have lent itself to some interesting commentary about wealth, social standing and feminism, but instead is an amateurish work lacking either depth or entertainment value.

The main failing of the book is that none of the characters are particularly well-developed or likable. Evelyn’s motivation for embracing the high society life is never sufficiently explained, and rather than coming across as conflicted or struggling, she just becomes more and more unlikeable throughout the book. The other characters are similarly one-dimensional. Camilla, the “perfect” society girl that Evelyn befriends, is never portrayed as more than a grade A b**ch. Why Evelyn is so taken with her is mystifying. The group of friends who connect to bring Evelyn into the story – Camilla, Nick, Scot, Charlotte and Preston – seem to have nothing in common or any reason to spend nights and weekends together socializing. Evelyn’s boyfriend Scot is consistently described as a kind of affable dork who never seems to interest her or have much of anything to say. As a result, there’s no entry point for the audience to care about their relationship or how Evelyn treats him.

In addition, the plot points don’t seem to organically connect, instead coming across as contrived and disjointed. Major elements of the plot (like the incident at the debutante ball that disrupts Evelyn and Camilla’s “friendship”) seem to come out of nowhere. Events that drive the story, like whether her father is guilty (and if so, why no one else at his firm is indicted), or whether her friend Preston is gay, are never satisfactorily resolved. The looming housing market collapse and stock market crash are never used as more than background noise.

About halfway through this book, I realized that I didn’t care about anyone in it and so I speedread through the rest. I didn’t expect Everybody Rise to be great literature, but I at least expected it to be entertaining. This book has neither the fluffy escapism of Crazy Rich Asians or the hilarious satire of Where’d You Go Bernadette. Don’t waste your time on it.


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Everybody Rise A Novel edition by Stephanie Clifford Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

Wow. My heart was in my mouth as I raced through to find out what would become of hapless-seeming social-climber Evelyn, labeled so crushingly as 'clematis' by those she wishes to emulate. Evelyn begins her spiral into cray-cray-ville with a practical goal era 2007 infiltrate the ranks of super-rich youngsters in NYC, leveraging her ex-prep school pals and status, in order to enroll them in her company website, 'People Like Us' (pun certainly intended ... even if 'people' don't really like them as much as they think). She gets disastrously caught up in their social whirl, racking up horrendous debt and alienating family, true friends and employers along the way. Readers get a product-placed glimpse into a real world both fascinating and appalling. The ending is emotionally satisfying and redemptive. I confess the impact of this cautionary tale, upon completion, compelled me to pay my AmEx bill in full and to be very glad I could.
I purchased this for a light read and was surprised to find it was being treated quite seriously (full-page review in the Sunday Book Review, etc.) She's a good writer and yes, it's social satire of a sort, but it came to feel more like a pop genre novel than anything else (remember Judith Krantz or Dominick Dunne?) Isn't is possible to take apart that strata of society without the endless detail on designer names, etc. And while I know those people must actually exist, they seem so irrelevant and ridiculous to most New Yorkers that it's hard to believe in anyone's pursuit of this circle and this life. At the start, Evelyn seems quite mousy. She's never actually described so you have no sense of her physically, or the impression she makes on others. Once she sees her opening, however, she seems to change seemingly overnight into an assertive, mouthy woman who never takes no for an answer. I had a hard time believing in this transformation and then her reversion to something resembling her earlier self when her life falls apart on her.

As others have noted, there aren't too many (any?) characters here to life (maybe Charlotte?), but I think the bigger issue is actually believing in their behavior and speeches. I am fine reading about someone I don't like if they seem credible; Evelyn never did, nor did most of the others. Very broadly drawn, caricatures instead of people. This may be the focus of satire, but someone like Tom Wolfe accomplished a whole lot more in Bonfire of the Vanities, for example, as did Wharton in House of Mirth.
I couldn't finish it. When Camilla threw Evelyn's bag and belongings into the hall and Evelyn apologized for being in the way, I closed the book. I felt like the parts I did read weren't at all original, and it was another case of "why are any of these people even friends?" Evelyn's constant need to fit in and make it seem like she belonged where everyone else so seamlessly blended in was just annoying.
I am mystified by the publicity hoopla that has surrounded this book. There are a million better books out there, yet this one gets a writeup in the NYT Book Review. It’s a shame -- the premise of Everybody Rise could have lent itself to some interesting commentary about wealth, social standing and feminism, but instead is an amateurish work lacking either depth or entertainment value.

The main failing of the book is that none of the characters are particularly well-developed or likable. Evelyn’s motivation for embracing the high society life is never sufficiently explained, and rather than coming across as conflicted or struggling, she just becomes more and more unlikeable throughout the book. The other characters are similarly one-dimensional. Camilla, the “perfect” society girl that Evelyn befriends, is never portrayed as more than a grade A b**ch. Why Evelyn is so taken with her is mystifying. The group of friends who connect to bring Evelyn into the story – Camilla, Nick, Scot, Charlotte and Preston – seem to have nothing in common or any reason to spend nights and weekends together socializing. Evelyn’s boyfriend Scot is consistently described as a kind of affable dork who never seems to interest her or have much of anything to say. As a result, there’s no entry point for the audience to care about their relationship or how Evelyn treats him.

In addition, the plot points don’t seem to organically connect, instead coming across as contrived and disjointed. Major elements of the plot (like the incident at the debutante ball that disrupts Evelyn and Camilla’s “friendship”) seem to come out of nowhere. Events that drive the story, like whether her father is guilty (and if so, why no one else at his firm is indicted), or whether her friend Preston is gay, are never satisfactorily resolved. The looming housing market collapse and stock market crash are never used as more than background noise.

About halfway through this book, I realized that I didn’t care about anyone in it and so I speedread through the rest. I didn’t expect Everybody Rise to be great literature, but I at least expected it to be entertaining. This book has neither the fluffy escapism of Crazy Rich Asians or the hilarious satire of Where’d You Go Bernadette. Don’t waste your time on it.