Loved this! Loved the pacing, the twists and turns, the sexual tension, everything! I would recommend this book and author to anyone. Going to look for other books by this author right now!

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cobb is consistently a love for me as a thriller author. i was so, so excited to get this eARC and it did not disappoint! she throws a bit of heat in here *ahem sweating* and the DRAMA ugh💃 grab this one for your next guilty pleasure binge🫡
thank you netgalley and berkleypub for my eARC✨

I found this piece to be exceptionally well-crafted, and I'm eagerly anticipating the opportunity to delve into more works by this author. Given its potential popularity among our library patrons, we're certainly looking forward to adding it to our collection

I was completely captivated by "The Hollywood Assistant" by May Cobb. The story follows Cassidy Foster, who lands a dream job as a personal assistant to a famous Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling. At first, everything seems perfect—luxury, opportunity, and a hint of romance with Nate. But as Cassidy delves deeper into their world, she uncovers dark secrets that place her at the center of a murder investigation.
This suspenseful thriller kept me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. The characters are complex, and their relationships are filled with tension and intrigue. I found myself questioning every motive and suspecting everyone, unsure of who to trust. May Cobb expertly weaves together themes of obsession, jealousy, and deceit, making for a gripping and unpredictable read.
As Cassidy navigates the treacherous waters of Hollywood, she becomes embroiled in a web of lies and betrayal that kept me guessing until the very end.
“The Hollywood Assistant" is a must-read for fans of psychological thrillers and mystery books.

Very grateful to the publisher @ for this copy , opinions are my own

Celebrities acting naughty. Non-celebrities acting naughty. Everyone in this book is completely unhinged in the best, most entertaining way! This book was such a wild ride. In true May Cobb fashion, there are some hot sex scenes and lots of alcohol consumption. Both of which lead to plenty of trouble.

I love this book. The beginning pulled me in, the drama between the pages kept me invested, and the ending was *chef's kiss*

I recommend this book to anyone who's a fan of thrillers with a touch of smut thrown in. It's also heavy into astrology, so if that's an interest of yours, give this a read.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is one of the best thrillers I have ever read. Unputdownable from beginning to end. If I didn’t have a job, I would have finished it in one sitting. It is a thriller story filled with lies, obsession, deception, and lust. The ending actually had my jaw ON THE FLOOR! I usually can predict the ends of thrillers but this ending had my SHOOK!

I went into this book completely blind and I am so glad I did. The absolute rollercoaster of emotions that Cobb can make her readers feel is why this book is so good. There were time where I was swooning, my heart was pounding, I was LITERALLY pacing my house reading, and my anxiety was through the roof.

I RARELY rate thrillers 5⭐️ but this one was just absolutely insane. A woman hired to be an assistant to a sexy LA celebrity couple stumbles upon secrets that have her stuck in the investigation of a murder? Yes I said it and it is PERFECT!

This will definitely be the summer thriller of the year. I can see everyone lounging pool side DEVOURING this book in one sitting. I may read it again in the summer and risk the sunburn to binge it in one sitting lol. If you need a book that will increase your heart rate and have your leg bouncing as you finish it, this is for you!

Cassidy Foster jumps at a chance to move to LA as an assistant. Her best friend finds her a great job where she can afford her housing and get out of Texas and her failed relationship. Shen quickly warms to the Sterlings who seem a perfect couple.

Her job is much easier than expected and the perks continue to appear - Marisol Sterling give her plenty of designer hand me downs and Nate Sterling starts to mentor her and allow her to look over some of the scripts he's written. Before she knows it, Cassidy feels like she is part of the family. The problem is - she is most certainly not.

When a murder occurs, Cassidy is the number one suspect. Can she clear her name? .#berkley #thehollywoodassistant #maycobb

Thank you @berkleypub and @netgalley for my gifted copy!

Preorder this book and call your therapist right now. You'll need it after the psychological warfare May Cobb puts you through. This was wild. I had no idea what to think or who to believe for about 90% of this book. There are so many key characters in this story, and they're all important (and sexy & dysfunctional). You're going to LOVE it. I was thoroughly entertained. I can confidently confirm this has been added to my "Favorite Books of All Time" list. Give it all the stars!

The Hollywood Assistant
Author: May Cobb
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Women's fic
Publisher: Berkley
Pub Date: July 9, 2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Wow nobody can write batsh@# crazy Hollywood stories like May Cobb!!!!!!!!!! This is one Hollywood story you don't want to miss out on right here. So unbelievably good!!!!

Steamy, naughty, and twisty as heck, this is May Cobb’s best book yet! With her signature ability to slowly seduce and immerse readers, making them more than simple voyeurs to her characters’ bad deeds, Cobb has created a story about forbidden desires and wrapped it in the glossy world of Hollywood’s rich elite. It’s easy to fall for these characters, which makes it that much more fun when the beautiful veneers start to chip and the ugly layers beneath begin to show. And then the twists hit! Just when you think the twists are done and you can breathe again, Cobb pulls one last rug out and I was not prepared. Bravo!

Thank you to NetGalley, Berkley & May Cobb for a digital galley of The Hollywood Assistant in exchange for an honest review.

May Cobb is an author who has grown on me. I started out not really caring for the first book of hers that I read, but either they've gradually gotten better or I've just started liking her work more! Last year, she got REALLY close to giving me a 5-Star read, so I felt like this year would be the year & I'm happy to say, I predicted correctly!

I absolutely love The Hollywood Assistant & cannot wait to share my review & praise with my followers closer to publication!

The synopsis is similar to another book I read fairly recently (The Spare Room by Andrea Bartz), however, Cobb pulled it off WAY better.

Our FMC, Cassidy, is depressed & stuck in a rut until a friend gets her a job as an assistant to a Hollywood "It" Couple, Marisol & Nate Sterling. It's the perfect dream job. She only has to run errands for them a few hours a week & the rest of the time she has access to all the luxuries that a lifestyle such as theirs has to offer. Then, an attraction begins to grow between Cassidy & Nate when he asks her to read scripts he's written. Cassidy soon learns that Marisol, Nate & their picture-perfect marriage isn't all that it appears to be & one half of that couple ends up dead. Cassidy happens to be the perfect suspect.

This book was everything & more. I was hooked from the start & binge read it in almost one sitting. This was a Suspense/Thriller that definitely lived up to its genre as both thrilling & suspenseful. With quick pacing, spice, romance, lies, deceit & bad girls doing bad things, this is an absolutely MUST READ. In my opinion, it is Cobb's best yet & definitely my favorite so far. She just keeps getting better & better & I can't wait to see what she has in store for 2025!

I can finally say.........a FULL 5-Stars!

Cassidy is offered her dream job, working for Nate and Marisol Sterling. The Sterlings seem to be the perfect couple. Soon, Cassidy realizes they are not the perfect couple and Marisol is not the perfect wife.

Things start to progress with Cassidy and Nate. This story is filled with love, lies and deceit. Marisol smirks, tilts her head, winks at me (Cassidy). A chill shudders over me. I've seen this wink- and smirk- before. "It's how you handle them, how you stay in control." Her words float back into my head.

May Cobb books are always fun to read. This one, while not my favorite of hers, was very entertaining! My favorites are The Hunting Wives and My Summer Darlings!

I was super excited to receive this advanced copy! Spicy, Naughty, and Twisted! 3.5 stars!

Thanks to NetGalley for the advance copy!

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I have loved every book by this author, but this one is my favorite. Even though I wanted to shake Cassidy the whole time! It’s about a woman (Cassidy) that gets a great opportunity to move to Los Angeles to be a personal assistant. Not long after she starts, she notices tension between the husband and wife she works for. Soon things escalate…..

The Hollywood Assistant
By: May Cobb
5 🩶🩶🩶🩶🩶

Every year I cannot wait to get my hands on Cobb’s latest book! This one definitely needs to be a movie!

The characters and plot are ADDICTIVE, CRAZY, CONNIVING and ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!

Nate and Marisol Sterling hire Cassidy to manage their lives as they both have busy careers. Marisol is waiting for her next big break. This couple starts to depend on Cassidy for more than what she signed up for.

I will NOT spoil this INSANELY and FUN plot, but I highly recommend you preorder this one!

Thanks for the free book Berkley Pub! #Berkleypartner, #berkley, #beekleybookstagram, #thehollywoodassistant, #maycobb, #booksconnectus, #bookreview, #stamperlady50

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This is a bit of a departure from Cobb’s usual formula - in a good way! Although the main character is a Texan, it’s set in LA rather than Texas. There’s also far less rampant misogyny , which makes for a nice change of pace!

Cassidy came to LA to work a the personal assistant for a married couple - the Sterlings. Nate is a producer, and Marisol is a B/C-list actress hoping to land an actual starring role. And although Cassidy’s best friend Lexie got her the job, she’s on a set in Prague, so Cassidy is literally moving to a place where she knows no one except her employers. Sounds like my nightmare, but she’s running away from a painful breakup, so it kinda makes sense. She’s immediately enchanted by Marisol and Nate - they’re the picture perfect Hollywood couple. It doesn’t take long for her to notice the cracks in their relationship, but she’s making great money for basically just running a few errands, so she doesn’t question it too much. Then Nate starts asking her to give notes on scripts he’s been sent for development and she’s over the moon. Cassidy has always wanted to be a writer, but her drawer full of rejected romance novels means her career never really took off. But this job could mean a foot in the door. So when Nate asks her to spy on Marisol (for extra cash), she jumps at the chance. And it doesn’t hurt that she has a huge crush on Nate. So if Marisol is cheating…maybe that’s not so bad.

In the midst of all this, we have a few flash forwards to four weeks after Cassidy’s start date, when she’s talking to detectives and under investigation, and clearly someone is dead. We just don’t know who. Or how. Or why.

I flew through this, and have to admit that it surprised me in the end. However, I just did NOT like Cassidy! She’s extremely whiny and entitled - there’s a point where Lexie does come home from Prague, both to check on Cassidy but also plan her own wedding. And girlfriend is just SO needy. It’s painful. It has a little of that Girl on the Train car wreck feel, where you’re watching someone make one terrible decision after another and you just want to shake them. She’s a lot. But this is mostly fun, and not terribly rage inducing. A decent summer read.

The Hollywood Assistant, by May Cobb, stole my weekend and I have zero complaints! My favorite book by Cobb since her incredible debut, The Hunting Wives. The characters were vivid, their dialogue snappy and fun, and the setting descriptions unbelievably evocative. The kind of novel so well built on the page that it felt like a movie playing in my brain. I was hooked from the first page to the very last. And now I'm in the worst book hangover!! Highly recommend!!

Thank you Berkley and May Cobb for the advanced copy!

This book blew my mind! At over 400 pages I'd consider it pretty long for a thriller, but I tore through it in less than 2 days. The pacing is excellent and I was hooked from page 1. The female MC is an interesting character, to say the least, but I couldn't help but root for her and her madness.

The big twist I did not see coming in a million years. Like... I'm still thinking about it days later. It's that good. Endlessly grateful to Berkley for letting me read this one early!!

Pub date: July 9.

I really enjoyed reading this, it had that suspenseful feel that I was looking for, I loved the use of the Hollywood element to this book and enjoyed the overall feel of the book. It uses the murder element perfectly and thought it was a great way of showing the dangers of everything. May Cobb does a great job in writing this book and I enjoyed the suspenseful feel of this with the Hollywood elements.

It’s becoming tradition at this point to devour Cobb’s latest book on my Spring break vacation and let me tell you, this does not disappoint. A Juicy, twisty and salacious tale that I simply could not put down. She is the hands down queen of a soapy story with a twisty ending that left my jaw on the floor.
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Cassidy is ready for a new beginning, a new career and a change of scenery as she moves to LA to become, as the title suggests, a Hollywood assistant. Marisol and Nate are the perfect Hollywood couple, or are they? When one of them ends up dead and Cassidy becomes a suspect things really start to hit the fan. It’s best to go into this one totally blind and will be the perfect beach, poolside, vacation read.
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Huge thank you to @berkleypub @berittalksbooks @thephdivabooks @dg_reads and @netgalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
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Thank you to Berkley @BerkleyPub and Netgalley @Netgalley for the e-arc.

Synopsis:

Cassidy takes a personal assistant job in Hollywood after a horrible breakup. She’s broken hearted, and just fed up, so she jumps on the opportunity.

She finds that all she has to do at her new job is show up for a few hours, run a few errands, and she’ll be fine, with some designer things thrown in for variety. However, things aren’t always as they seem and there are always strings.

Nate, the husband to Marisol and her employer, seems to take interest in her. Cassidy can’t believe her luck, even more so when he has her read and summarize scripts for her.

Turns out, her employers aren’t the perfect couple they’d like people to believe. So when one of them is found dead, Cassidy, as their closest person by default, is the prime suspect.

Thoughts:

I love May Cobb so much and this book did not disappoint me at all. It feels like every book she writes, she gets better.

This one left me so happy just reading about all the twists and turns and delightful ways people are horrible. This book grabbed my interest straight from the start, and then it sucked me into the pages. I didn’t want to come up to take a breath because I was so immersed.

May Cobb writes amazing characters, and I feel that even if you wouldn’t typically relate to them, you always can and then you are taken on a wild ride. I particularly like that she writes them all with flaws, while showing their good side as well. She writes them as whole people, not just glamorous ones. They are just so well written and captivating.

I feel that this book was long, but it didn’t feel that it was long enough, it felt like the perfect length. The pacing was on the faster side, but not so fast that I got lost or overwhelmed. I do wish a few things were further explained, but I did enjoy this one a lot. I did particularly enjoy the ending and it was a fun way to wrap up the book. Not what I anticipated at all.