This was a very good book! Different than what I expected but still kept me wanting to read more. I couldn't put this one down until i was finished. I loved the thriller aspect of it and I highly recommend.

This was a fun, interesting, and great story! This is a story that is told through the real timeline and also through chapters of the book within the book. I loved both portions of the story and found them to be captivating. I wavered between a 4 and a 5 star and landed at 5 stars. I thought that the beginning was a little slow, but once we jump forward in time to once he has stolen the plot, I felt like the story just FLEW! It was fast-paced and got crazier and crazier!

I alternated between the audio and the print versions of this book. The narrator did a wonderful job with this book, and I highly recommend the audio!

I think thriller readers will enjoy this one!

I was provided a gifted copy of this book for free. I am leaving my review voluntarily.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC of The Plot by Jean Haniff Korelitz.

Even though Jacob once had a shining moment as an author for his debut novel, his fifteen minutes are up, and he is now teaching for an unimpressive program. His students treat him with apathy, and he is beginning to lose hope that he will never be a known author again.

But then Jacob meets a new student, Evan Parker, who Jacob finds completely arrogant, narcissistic, and totally unimpressed with Jacob's desire to help him. But Evan has a story, a mind blowing story, a story so good that it is practically fail proof. Jacob knows that it's only a matter of time until he sees Evan's story on the shelf. But years pass, and he never does, but more than that, he sees that Evan Parker has died. But Jacob still knows Evan's story, and he also knows that Evan left behind no one that would no his story. Perhaps Evan's story can become Jacob's...

This was a BLAST to read! So much about it to love. I loved all of the literary and author references. I loved the story within a story. The mystery was so fun, the characters were very compelling. If you are looking for a well paced, colorfully layered mystery/suspense, grab this one!

This book sounding interesting. However, I didn't care for the audiobook or the story. I was extremely bored. Not sure if it was the narrator or the writing style. Also the Audiobook book seemed to have a feedback.

This was the solid thriller I was looking for. I may have caught on part way through as to the 'big reveal', but I had no idea what kind of a ride we were going to go on to get there. I really enjoyed bouncing back and forth from the story to the story within the story. I felt equally invested in both!

Jake is an one hit wonder novelist turned writing teacher. One of his students tells him the plot of the book he wants to write and it sounds like a sure hit. Years later, Jake finds out that the student is dead and did not write the book with this great plot. So he writes the book and it is indeed a best seller and becomes the most talked about book. But Jake feels guilty for taking the plot and sure enough, someone else knows and is out to blackmail him.

I loved this idea and the book within a book storyline. It, like the book inside it, was such a good idea. It was also well written and had a steady pace (which is hard to do!) I did see the "twist" coming and many times found myself yelling at the main character for being so blind and short sighted. Despite guessing what would happen, I did enjoy this book and I think it will be, rightfully so, much read and talked about this summer. I'm so glad that a book I had high expectations for (mostly) held up! 3.75 stars

The audiobook version here, however, was terrible. It sounded like an automated voice. Luckily, I also got the print version and was able to enjoy this book that way. I would not recommend this audiobook version.

Thank you to Netgalley for the advance copy for review.

What a fun book this was! I loved the audiobook which I switched to after the slow start and I’m so glad I did! The narrator did a fantastic job, I couldn’t put the book down, I finished in a day. I loved it so much, I can’t recommend it enough!

I was looking forward to this however it’s rather slow. I don’t know if it’s the narrator or the story line itself? It’s a DNF for me.