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00:00This book was insufferable and good at the same time. I don't even know if that's possible.
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00:32Today I want to talk about The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor. I picked this book up from the
00:38library about a year ago and I can honestly truly say I'm so glad I did not purchase this book with
00:45my money because it was insufferable yet good and insufferable some more and yet good. I don't even
00:55know what to say but let me just read the description really quick before I get into
00:59what I want to say. The once rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most
01:06recent novel a retelling of Daphne of Rebecca was a flop. Her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her
01:14and she's battling a bad case of writer's block. So when her agent calls with a high paying ghost
01:21writing opportunity Olivia is all too willing to sign the NDA. At first the right for hire job
01:28seems too good to be true. All she has to do is interview Henry Ash Asherwood a reclusive
01:36mega billionaire twice named people's sexiest man alive who wants her help in writing a book that
01:44reveals a shocking secret about his late grandmother and the author of the book Rebecca.
01:51But when Olivia arrives at his Malibu estate nothing is as it seems. The more Olivia digs into his
01:58grandmother's past the more questions she has and before she knows it she's trapped in a gothic mystery
02:04of her own. Now a few things I want to say about this book really quickly. First off I really appreciated
02:10the fact that the book was based on another book. Rebecca is actually a book. I'll leave it somewhere
02:19here. It's a book you can check out from the library. It's a book you can buy if you want to. I believe
02:27it's a classic at this point and I love the fact that Jillian Cantor kind of goes with that as her basis
02:38for writing the fiction writer. I love the fact that there is mystery to this book. There's a lot of
02:45mystery to this book so much so that in the end I'm like I still we are still left with a lot of
02:52questions which I think is not a bad thing because a truly good mystery I don't think it solves or works
02:58itself out by the end of the book. I just don't think so. I think the purpose of a true mystery is
03:04so that the reader can have something to continue to ask questions about. I read this book a year ago
03:11like I said and I still haven't been able to get the ending off my mind because the ending was actually
03:16all right. The problem with this book is that the build-up to get to the ending is insufferable.
03:24I cannot tell you how many times I almost did not finish this book and granted this book is not
03:32even 300 pages but it was just so slow. Oh my goodness every time I felt like something was
03:39going to happen nothing happened. Every time I just knew something was going to happen nothing
03:44happened. Every time I thought well maybe so it was a no but every time I thought that something
03:50nothing was going to happen I was exactly right nothing happened and it was just overwhelming
03:55because first off the book starts with like a fire and it starts like out the box it's like
04:03banging like okay it's a mystery someone is it killed someone and and did did someone kill someone
04:09because it was a fire but is she really dead is she alive you know and then as it builds like I came
04:16into just from reading like the the beginning I'm like Asher Asherwood Ash is is um is the murderer
04:24he murdered his his first wife he kind of wants to get with the fiction writer that he hired the ghost
04:29writer uh is he getting with her because she reminds him so much of his wife what's really going on
04:34here the end just dispels everything that built up to it to a degree which again I think that that makes
04:44a good mystery but at the same time for this book because it was so slow with the build up I was like
04:50that was kind of like torture to send us through all that just to say you don't know like I don't think
04:58I don't think that's I don't think that's right so the fiction writer by Jillian Cantor is definitely
05:06one if as uh the description reads if you like like a gothic type of fiction and you don't mind
05:12uh a really slow build up and getting to the end and not having all of the conclusions
05:18and you you're okay and don't feel like that was kind of a waste of your time to
05:22bite nails to read this all the way through fiction writer might be for you if you're someone like
05:29me who got to the end and was like whoa that end is crazy but why did we do all of that building up
05:34to it there was really no point to that you may want to skip this book but whatever you choose to do
05:40you know yeah check it out or don't the fiction writer by Jillian Cantor bye
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