This book reeled me in quickly and I couldn’t put it down until I was done. Cover Story by Susan Rigetti is told in emails, text messages, Instagram posts, FBI documents, and in diary entries by Lora Ricci. 

Lora Ricci is a young college girl in a tough situation, she’s lost her scholarship at NYU for terrible grades and there’s no money to make up for it. But she has an exciting summer internship at ELLE magazine, so she thinks maybe her dreams of becoming a writer are within reach someday. She is not as naturally cool or wealthy as the other interns but she feels so lucky when one of the magazine contributors asks her to help with a special project on her days off.

Quickly, Lora is sucked into this project and the day to day life of Cat Wolff, the enigmatic and alluring ELLE employee. I won’t say anything else because the story moves so fast and I don’t want to spoil a thing. 

I highly recommend this book for anyone who is a fan of a bookish novel, an epistolary novel, or who is just looking for a not so typical thrill. It reminds me of Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews and The Appeal by Janice Hallett but with a New York aesthetic. I hope you’ll give Cover Story a read!