Book Review: The Plot Twist by Eleanor Goymer

Official Synopsis: This love story is a work in progress…When romcom author Allie Edwards crosses paths with bestselling crime novelist – aka publishing dinosaur – Martin Clark at a party, they discover they both have crippling writer’s block, overdue manuscripts and precisely zero words to show to their respective editors.

With deadlines looming, Allie and Martin decide to switch plots and tell each other’s stories. In the writing process, Allie not only gains a father-figure in Martin, but also meets gorgeous events caterer Will, the answer to the leading man-shaped hole in her life and her lack of spicy material.

Caught between love and her career, what could possibly go wrong?

There were things about this book I really wanted to like. I love books where the main characters are authors, especially romance ones, and I think that is what really made me interested in this book. Allie is in a writing rut and with a new person at their publisher making things a lot harder, she decides to meet with Martin, a mystery author, to hopefully work them both through their writer's block.

At the same time she meets with Martin, she runs into a cute waiter, who she is immediately enamored with. This waiter, Will, and Allie run into each other later, and decide to keep meeting, the issues start when Allie starts to realize that Will is Martin's son and Martin and Will don't know she has been spending time with both. Allie knows the secrets of Martin's marriage, and has been using it as inspiration for her novel. When the whole plan seems to unravel, there is also the looming failure of having their new publisher drop them.

One of my biggest issues with this book is I feel like I saw everything coming, which isn't a bad thing but it just felt too predictable. At certain moments, some of the conflicts could have been fixed with a one or two minute conversation but is then talked about over chapters, especially between Will and Allie. I think we could have had more time with them being happy together if some of those simple conversations just happened.

And though I know the plot point with Jake and him having a hostile takeover of the publish lead to Martin and Allie spending time together, I wasn't super interested in that whole plot. Yes, Jake was a terrible person and did terrible things, but the time spent on that part of the plot was 'meh' to me.

Overall, it is a nice and easy romance to read. There aren't a lot of stakes, things work out nicely and overall it was an easy read to get through.

I rated this book 2.5 out of 5 stars!

The Plot Twist is scheduled to come out March 25, 2025!

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