Anon Pls.
A Novel
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Soon-to-be a Max Original series, written and co-produced by Diablo Coby and Ryan O'Connell!
"Dazzling, propulsive, and delightfully juicy, Anon Pls. is the digital age’s love letter to The Devil Wears Prada. Sexy, suspenseful, and so good you won’t want to put it down—not even to check on the latest stories in Deuxmoi’s feed. What an incredible debut." — Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author
When Cricket Lopez, assistant to one of the most notorious celebrity stylists, revamps her old fashion Instagram account and turns it into a source for celebrity gossip on a drunken whim, she never thinks it will become anything. It's just a way to blow off steam after a terrible, terrible day at work where her nightmarish boss screams at her and blames her for some 18-year-old influencer's screw-up. But when the account grows overnight and, even wilder, when she starts getting gossip from fans and insiders —juicy gossip—she has to face facts: her Instagram is now famous. She is now famous.
Though no one knows that she is behind the account, its newfound success quickly wreaks havoc on her real life. Her boss wonders why she’s disappearing on the job, her friends are increasingly irritated by her dedication to the account, and she has celebrities, investors, and journalists approaching her nonstop. Plus, there's a steamy new love interest who she meets through her online persona—except she has no idea if she can truly trust his motives.
As the account grows and becomes more and more influential, she has to wonder: is it—the fame, the insider access, the escape from real life—really worth losing everything she has?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The evocative if underwhelming debut novel by the creator of celebrity-gossip Instagram account Deuxmoi, cowritten with Goodman (They Wish They Were Us), delves into the gossip and toxic culture of fashion and media. Cricket Lopez, assistant to celebrity stylist Sasha Sherman, has dealt with routine abuse and humiliation at her job for eight years. But when an influencer client reneges on a deal, ruining Cricket's prospects for a promotion, she takes to Instagram to rant, and, in a drunken stupor, calls on followers to dish on other big names, with Sasha in the crosshairs for her toxic behavior and enabling of sexual predators. Overnight, her anonymous style account morphs into a celebrity-gossip blog called Deuxmoi. Cricket's DMs fill with celebrity sightings and juicy Hollywood scoops. Soon, investors and journalists want to collaborate amidst growing curiosity about who runs Deuxmoi. As the Instagram handle gains notoriety and Cricket has a virtual romance with the editor-in-chief of a popular magazine, she starts slacking at work and neglecting friendships. And when a journalist starts connecting the dots between Cricket and Deuxmoi, she realizes social media could make or break her. While the authors examine important themes—sexism, power imbalances, and enabler culture—there's often too much exposition, and Cricket's character development feels forced. It offers some insights on what makes an influencer tick, but not much else.
