When life gives you lululemons book review:

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Yesterday I finished reading ‘when life gives you lululemons). While I enjoyed this book, I found its ending to be underwhelming. If you are looking for a fresh, crips, trendy read with clever characters, good sense of humor, and somewhat nurturing moments; then yes. I advice you to pick this one up.

Spoiler section:

About that ending: I disliked that Emily needed Miranda’s help to bring down Mr. Hartwell. At the beginning, we follow a significant part of the narrative explaining how Emily progressed professionally after working in runway. She is now her own boss, and works as a crisis celebrity advisor. She prides herself on the work she did in runway, but feels like her career is slipping through her fingers as she loses clients to younger, more social media relevant, competitors. Emily sees the opportunity of working with Karolina as the redemption opportunity she desperately needs. Seeking Miranda’s help, asking her to take the lead in organizing and executing a plan to convince Hartwell to propose Karolina an alternative agreement to keep her son Harry in her life, is almost the equivalent to recognizing Emily would have failed at fulfilling the job she was hired to do had she not sought the outside help from her former boss. This leads me to think that Emily’s skills are not at the level she so advertised them to be during the novel, and makes me feel underwhelmed and disappointed by the reality this character has to face at the end.

However, a silver-lining for me in this plot resolution is that Emily was smart enough to recognize she needed Miranda once she found she couldn’t handle it alone. Had she continued without her, and failed, I would have been even more disappointed than I was before. How many of us are blinded by our egos, and don’t recognize a challenge we face is bigger than us before it is too late? In this way, Emily sets a good professional example for us readers, and reminds us that is better to recognize when a job is beyond our abilities than have our clients suffer the consequences of our future failure.

I rate it 3.5 out of five stars.