Amanda Wakes Up

By: Alisyn Camerota

Narrated by: Lu Hanessian, Alisyn Camerota

Length: 11 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

“Amanda Gallo is my kind of girl: funny, self-aware, and unable to resist a makeover.... I loved this novel.” (Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada and When Life Gives You Lululemons)

“Entertaining.” (People)

When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands the anchor job of her dreams at FAIR News, she thinks she’s finally made it: a six-figure salary, wardrobe allowance, plenty of on-air face time, and a chance to realize her dreams, not to mention buy herself lunch. Instead, she finds her journalistic ideals shredded as she struggles to keep up with the issues in a ratings-crazed madhouse: battling for hair and makeup time; coping with her sexist (but scathingly handsome) coanchor, Rob; mixing up the headlines with pajama modeling on the street, and showing Benji Diggs, her media maestro boss, that she's got what it takes.

As the news heats up in a hotly contested election season and a wild-card candidate, former Hollywood actor Victor Fluke, appears on the scene, Amanda's pressure-cooker job gets hotter while her personal life unravels. Walking a knife's edge between ambition and survival, and about to break the biggest story of her career, Amanda must decide what she's willing to give up to get ahead - and what she needs to hold on to to save herself.

©2017 Alisyn Camerota (P)2017 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Amanda Wakes Up uses a breezy story to provide an insider’s guide to a closed world.” (The New York Times)

“When Amanda Gallo signs on for the job of her dreams at FAIR news, she expects a life-changing career move. What she finds is chaos, vipers, and relentless competition. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry.” (Glamour)

“A hilarious, eye-opening glimpse into the TV-news trenches, from one who’s had to navigate them backwards and in heels.” (Samantha Bee, host of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and author of I Know I Am, but What Are You?)

Fun read..enjoyed the parallels!

Easy read and fun. Nice first novel; I could see Amanda's character teaching additional higher moral compass lessons for more than the media.

Great book

Loooooved it, funny and clever!! Alisyn Camerota is such a great role model! I highly recommend it 😊

quite interesting was read with style. Would def

I would recommend the reading of this book, charming and funny at times well written.

Amazing parallels!

On its own the book was well written and helpful to understand the behind the scenes world and thought processes of journalists and the free press. I loved the comedic tones hit throughout as well as the realism of the love story that developed in the course of the book. That said, the book was infinitely more intriguing due to the amazing parallels to the 2016 election! Hoping Alisyn will consider a sequel so we can find out if Fluke ends up in the White House!

Amanda Wakes Up kept me glued to the speaker

Amanda Wakes Up keeps your attention. i listen in the car while driving and i found myself going on unnecessary drives just so i could hear more!!! #greatread #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

Entertaining

Narrator sounds like Camerota. Nice light hearted story of cable news. You can enjoy if you don’t take it as real life or biographical.

Current Events

Funny and fast paced. Truly timely given today's news and events. Recommended for all going into the media business.

I really enjoyed this book.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very interesting and parts of it were pretty funny. At least to me. I was trying to give it 5 stars in every category, I don't know if the app is acting up or if there's a better way to do that anyway it would have five stars.

Great read !

Listening to the story of Amanda Wakes Up was greatly enhanced by the wonderful read of Lu Hanessian.
Her ability to move between 30 some characters was a challenge that kept me listening and in awe of her ability to shift between multiple characters during fast-moving dialogue.
The story was fun and Hanessian's read made it that much better. From a make up artist with a heavy New York accent to a Jewish Diamond merchant to the frenetic Benji Diggs, Hanessian's talents come to life in animating Alison Camerota's colorful cast of characters.

Great read or listen! Relevant and funny.

I would definitely recommend this book to someone interested in a light, fun read that also teaches some great lessons. It is so shockingly on point for today’s media and society, especially given it was prior to the last election results. Witty, fun characters that you want to get to know and see succeed. Would
Love you read more from this author!