Can't get enough of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and Nicole Richie? HOW TO TEACH FILTHY RICH GIRLS by Zoey Dean might be the key to your rich girl obsessions. But don't let me mislead you, the book's about Megan. And she's far from rich.

Megan graduated and wanted nothing but the publishing dream--move to New York City, find a job at a prestigious publishing company or magazine, and live her dream. What happened was a crummy job at a tabloid and a huge student load ($75,000 to be exact). And it turns even more sour--she loses her job at the tabloid. Kinda. In the same firing meeting, the editor-in-chief waves Megan a bone: tutor two of the richest heiresses on the Palm Beach, Florida scene so that their SAT scores literally score them a spot at Duke. With little other choice, Megan takes the job and our real story begins.

The twins? Seventeen-year-olds Rose and Sage Baker are known for drunken parties and flashing the paparazzi (sound familiar?) and aren't so keen on this "arrangement." Hell just arranging their social schedule to fit in a little school, isn't on their agenda. Especially when the teacher is a peer who looks like a [gasp!] struggling post-graduate wearing a bunch of thrift store finds. But don't fret, Megan's a fighter. The $1500 a week and the possibility of ridding herself of the school loan debt--has her determined if not plain old, scared to NOT make this plan work.

HOW TO TEACH FILTHY RICH GIRLS was hilarious. Megan had me in stitches. She is sarcastic, fun, witty, and well... like an every day post-grad girl that is so broke the thought of being well dressed and fed is merely a daydream. There's a bit-o-Cinderella in the plot (as in happily ever after; ugly girl turns pretty), but don't let that turn you away. There's more than a few twists that definitely make it giggling fun.

Skip this if you are looking for a chick lit heroine who is actually smart. Megan certainly isn't. No perceptive insights into the world of the fabulously wealthy, no witty asides, no scintillating repartee. Instead, you have author Zoey Dane constantly reminding readers of Megan's magna cum laude dual degree from Yale. I guess she has to, because there is no indication otherwise that Megan has more than average intelligence. Dane's one attempt -Megan's suggestion of an article on the possible link between breast cancer and the pill, is laughable. A) Megan works for a gossip rag. B) Even if Megan hadn't a clue about the subject, a modicum of research would have corrected her. Instead, Megan the journalist offers the article idea after reading a single article on hormone replacement therapy. C) In the one incident of unplanned sex on the beach, there was no mention of condoms, so I was left to conclude that smart Megan was on the pill despite thinking it can cause her breast cancer. By the way, this article proposal of Megan's is called "intelligent and ballsy." *sigh*

Also skip this one if the following plot line makes you grimace: Debra, Megan's editor tells her "you remind me of me at your age" and then sends Megan to Palm Beach, partly thinking Megan was "perfect" for her son.

On the otherhand, go ahead and buy the book if it appeals to you to read that the fabulously rich dine on champagne* and caviar (without the carb loaded crackers) everyday and that with a hair iron, spackling, and couture gowns, a sow's ear can be turned into a silk purse.

The best parts of the book were the multiple choice questions which preface the chapters.

*Champagne is full of carbs. But I guess Zoey Dane doesn't know that.

Megan Smith lives in NYC and works as a secretary for a fashion magazine doing captions for photos. She would rather be working for a more well respected magazine, but stays put. That is until she gets fired. Her boss tells her that she is is not suited for that kind of job.

Her boss tells her that she has a job lined up for her working in Florida and that it would help her money wise (she has massive college debt). Megan flies down to Florida, not knowing who she was going to work for, but was told to read a magazine with an article in it about the spoiled rotten grandchildren of a French woman who made billions marketing skin and hair care products. The grandchildren (twins) need to be tutored so that they can be accepted into Duke University before they get their inheritance

The twins Rose and Sage do not want to have anything to do with Megan at first, thinking that they will not need Megan since they will be big stars, but that is soon proven wrong. They decide to do the work and in the process all thing learn things about themselves and find love in along the way.