The Plot Twist by Eleanor GoymerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Allie Edwards is a successful romance author with six best sellers under her belt. At book launches she always credits her boyfriend Dominic as her inspiration, but in reality her romances are all about what Allie wishes Dom would do. But Now Allie is stuck, she has writer's block, her lovely editor Verity has given her several extensions but Allie has lost all inspiration and doesn't believe in Happy Ever After any more.
Her publisher throws a swanky party at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Allie attends reluctantly, although she does have a bit of a spark with one of the waiters serving canapes, and ends up getting locked out accidentally where she meets a fellow author, best-selling crim novelist Martin Clark, who, she discovers, is similarly inspiration-challenged and hasn't published anything for years.
Following the party, Allie and Martin meet up at a café where Martin regales Allie with tales of his marital woes and Allie gives him some advice from her expertise as a romance writer.
Meanwhile, Allie meets Will, the sexy waiter from the V&A event, again and finally starts to feel some of the spark/butterflies that she has been writing about for so long, but never really felt. Drawing on the feelings Will evokes and using Martin's memories of when he and his wife first met, Allie finds inspiration to write a new romance. But is it ethical to write a novel which draws so closely on Martin's life, and will her inspiration fail if Allie and Will become a couple?
Throw in shenanigans at her publishers and Allie has a lot on her plate.
This was fun, I read it in just over a day. I did get frustrated that Allie couldn't/wouldn't tell the truth, but I also think it was well sign-posted because she wouldn't admit to Verity that she hadn't written anything for her new novel and continued to promise a synopsis/first few chapters in a few days.
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.
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