What an absolutely delicious summer read, full of references to NYC's celebrity con artists and literary drama.

Lora Ricci is an NYU dropout and aspiring author interning at ELLE Magazine and avoiding telling her parents she won't be returning to her hard-won university spot this fall. At ELLE, she meets Cat Wolff, an editor and ingenue who has some kind of magnetic energy. Before she knows it, Lora is Cat's ghostwriter, living and working in her suite at the Plaza for nothing more than a promise and room service. But there's more to Cat than meets the eye, and someone's desperate to prove that. Told through diary entries, emails, DMs, and more, this is the perfect beach read that's guaranteed to throw you for a loop.

I love other people's drama; call it schadenfreude or nosiness, I'm desperate to know what's going on, particularly in worlds that I orbit as a satellite and never as a participant - namely, literary drama. This book is such a delightful mashup of so many recent pop culture dramedies: Anna Delvey, Cat Person, Bad Art Friend, Caroline Calloway, and more. Lora is a sweet girl from Nowhere, Pennsylvania who gets wrapped up into more than is dreamt of in her philosophy and suffers for it, and you can't help but to hang onto every word she writes into her diary.

This is such a fantastic beach read, light enough to pick up and put down, but intriguing enough to suck you in every time. Read with a glass of champagne or a good cocktail at hand, and be ready to want to shake Lora by her shoulders as though you're her older sister.

Thank you William Morrow and NetGalley for the ARC!