Climbing in Heels by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas ⭐⭐⭐ Thank you @macmillan.audio and netgalley for my gifted copies. MacAudio2025 Pub Day: April 29, 2025 Pages: 384 Audiobook Length: 13 hours, 46 minutes Bethany's Review: It’s always disappointing when you were really looking forward to a book and it doesn’t live up to your expectations. The idea of the book is great, three secretaries and a Hollywood agency in the 1980’s who rise to the top while dealing with inappropriate and corporate men of that time. There were too many characters, and most of them fell flat – there was no connection with any of them. Normally I enjoy some spice, but here it felt wrong, for some reason, it didn’t work. There was no emotional aspect in the storyline. I walked away from the story feeling meh. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a decent job with what she had to work with. Sara's Review: I wanted to love this book. Women in Hollywood in the 1980's is definitely a fun topic... but I did not find that I loved it. There were too many characters, which made it hard to connect to any of the characters and even their stories. I did not find that there was a ton of character growth or even that I truly got to connect and know the characters. I think fewer characters would have allowed there to be more of an emotional connection. I also found that the book overall did not portray women during that time well - there was too much sex and drugs and not enough of the positive, in my opinion. The book dragged on in the middle because of these things. I wish that there was more of the humanness to the book, since I think this is a great period to discuss women, especially working women. LTKFindsUnder50 LTKStyleTip LTKGiftGuide