I was having serious FOMO over this book and have been very eager to get it off my backlist TBR. 

I dove into this ready to go and devoured it for one of my quickest reads in a few months. 

I think everyone knows what this story is about at this point but here's a brief description. June Hayward and Athena Liu are 'friends' and authors. Here's the problem: Athena's career is successful and taking off in all the ways that June feels she is entitled too, but is not. But then, something happens to Athena and June just happens to snag a manuscript and is now ready to publish it and get what *she* deserves. Follow along as June gets all, and maybe more, that's she has asked for.

I felt a multitude of emotions while reading this book - so many so that I don't think that I can actually put them to words that make sense in a review. It's more like scattered, incomplete thoughts that together probably make sense but I just don't know how to articulate it. 

As someone who has absolutely zero idea of how publishing works, I did like getting to see some of the 'behind the scenes' things - the good, the bad, and everything in between.

June is probably one of the most unlikable characters that is not a point blank villain I've ever read. (AND BEFORE YOU COME AT ME I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SHE IS A HORRIBLE PERSON AND IS A VILLAIN. 100%. WHAT I MEAN BY THIS IS THAT..other than what I already knew about the book..if you were coming in 100% blind to what this book is about it's not like it's advertised as a Disney movie where you know a villain is inevitable. Does that make sense? Like personally, *I* knew she was a villain going in and had strong feelings/opinions, but it I didn't, I might not have hated her right away...) 
^^And this is why I said I don't feel I can adequately review this book. 

It's genius. It's ugly. It's necessary. 

Just read it. You'll be glad you did.