The Plot The Plot
Book 1 - The Book Series

The Plot

A Novel

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Publisher Description

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** The Tonight Show Summer Reads Winner ** A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 **

"Insanely readable."
—Stephen King

Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told.

In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.

As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2021
May 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
272
Pages
PUBLISHER
Celadon Books
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
4.7
MB

Customer Reviews

RLOMD ,

Ok

I like the play on words in the title. The protagonist is supposed to be dumb, but he is cartoonishly stupid. The whole story screams at a crazy plot twist, but I knew where it could be heading a third of the way through. I must say my own preconceptions stopped me from figuring it completely out until the 3/4 mark, and then I was a little sick. ( I will have to go back to classics; modern thrillers always want to outdo each other in psychopathy.) The red herring is so obvious- do they want us to know so we feel better we figured it out instead of surprising us as the readers of the fictitious book were surprised? At one point in a big reveal, the reveal was casually ruined 20 pages earlier by the protagonist (is that an editing mistake?). I just started reading thrillers, and overall I guess this one is ok as a beach read. I give it four stars because I like the descriptive details and although no major character is likable, it does make you think about differences in gender roles.

Lizardbrain90 ,

Save yourself the frustration and read something else

This is a pretty terrible book. The writing is painfully awkward, everybody sounds exactly the same when they speak, zero character development because there is no character to speak of, the pacing is grinding, the book is twice as long as it should be. Where was this writer’s editor?

Solonreader ,

twists and turns ….

I could not put it down … fantastic writing …

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