Author?s first book about a female president, female Chief of Staff and a female White House correspondent. A story about the intertwining of their lives. Light, but entertaining.

I like political intrigue, but this was stupid chick lit. First female President was promising, but this drivel was syrupy, whiny, and one-dimensional. ( )

All telling, no showing, poorly developed characters, story lines that jump around and no real sense of what it might be like to be the first female president of the USA..... ( )

Ah, a political chick lit novel written by a middle aged man. What? Oh, it's not written by a man, but by a woman. Honestly if I hadn't seen her talking about her books on the Rachel Maddow Show I'm not sure I'd believe that this book was actually written by a young-ish woman.

The novel tells the story of three women from each of their points of view. Me, the Chief of Staff of Charlotte, the first woman President of the United States (and a Republican just like the author), and Dale, a White House Reporter. It shows how their lives intersect and overlap and boy do they whack into each other more often than not.

The only one that I could even slightly stand was Mel, and only barely. The rest of the characters, both male and female almost seemed like they were the same character. Plus they, even Mel, were all the 'perfect' woman with the right stylishness and ultra-femme-ness. Not to mention the fact that the book was so heteronormative it hurt (and I thought it would have been a more interesting novel if it hadn't been quite so... I'll go with socially conservative in its romantic plots).

Then, there was just how much the copyediting sucked. 'Taking' instead of 'Talking', and 'job' instead of 'jab' were just a couple of the mistakes that weren't caught, and nearly every time I stumbled over one it pulled me from a narrative that wasn't horribly special to start with.

It wasn't a horrible read, other than the copyediting it was technically okay, but the plot was sorta boring and uninspired, and it's PR was disingenuous. It wasn't a political thriller at all, it was chick lit all the way. ( )

Easy. Fun. Worth the read. ( )