Excellent review, thanks Janice! I think some authors make portraying and pillorying the privileged classes seem easier than it is. I hate to say it but I do think there is an element of you need to have lived it on some level to be convincing -there's a reason Brett Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt come from the same circles and have carved a niche excoriating elements of their background. Even the Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger, she had the bird's eye view as a lowly assistant to the rich/high flyers but it was enough to make most of her subsequent writing ring true. I don't know anything of this editor's background but the examples you quote are shockingly bad. Good "chick lit" is not easy, and never as badly written as that so how it made it past an editor or became a bestseller sounds like the worst elements of publisher's in crowd privilege.