THIS. BOOK.

So good. Highly recommend. All the stars.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

I honestly want to leave my review at that, but I should probably write a better one. So, this book is about a writer, which is a complete “yes, please” for me, as I love writing. Then add that the writer takes his late student’s plot because, hey, it’s going to go to waste otherwise since the student passed away, only to get a message after it’s a wild hit that someone knows he stole the idea.

Right away in this book I was invested because I felt Jacob’s struggle as a writer when he hit a block on his novel. All writers have been there, and it sucks, so I felt bad for him at the beginning. when Jacob found out about Evan’s death three or so years later, he realizes that Evan never finished his book that he was working on. The one with the great plot. The one that deserved to be written.

So Jacob writes it himself.

That’s not to say that he stole the entire story word for word or anything, but the concept, yeah. He did. The words were all this, the characters were different, and the setting was. Despite this, there’s still that part of Jacob that feels bad for taking this plot and running with it because what happens if someone finds out it wasn’t his idea at all? Well… that happens. And it’s a mystery how this person knows if Evan never shared his idea because he kept it tightly under wraps (except for that one night in Jacob’s office).

This book had me so invested that it was all I could think about over the days of reading it, and for the first time in a while, I took my time with it (as much as I could anyway) because I was enjoying it so much. Every time I thought I knew what was going on, I second-guessed myself as I tried to figure out who the person behind the messages was. I love books that keep me guessing like that, and this was one of the top.

So, as I mentioned in my first thoughts of this book… I highly recommend it. Especially if you’re a writer.