A book about a book? Sign me up!

Jacob Finch Bonner is a published author who is teaching a college writing course while hoping to write his next novel. The problem is, he can’t come up with any good plot ideas. That is, until a student of his, Evan Parker, brings an idea to him for his own novel that he’s working on.

A few years later, Jake is still struggling with writing his next novel. When Jake discovers Evan is dead along with all of his family, he decided to use Evan’s plot for his book. After the success of the book, Jake starts getting called out for plagiarism from an anonymous source and decides to uncover who is behind the threats.

The Plot has such an interesting plot, and I really loved the idea of a book within a book. There are chapters of Jake’s book interspersed throughout which really helped to uncover who was behind the messages to Jake.

I did think the book started off a bit slow, but once Jake has published his book the pace picked up. Don’t go into this one expecting any big twists or shocking wow moments. It’s definitely not that kind of thriller, however I did enjoy the writing. Even though I figured out what was going on, I still enjoyed this overall.

I listened to the audiobook and although I enjoyed the narrator, Kirby Heyborne, I did need to speed it up since it was rather slow.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for a copy in exchange for me honest review.