The Award: A Novel

by Matthew Pearl

""The Award begins as a wryly funny satire of thwarted literary ambition, but it quickly evolves into something darker and more disturbing. Matthew Pearl’s addictive and propulsive novel has the twisted nightmare logic of a Patricia Highsmith thriller.""—Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of Tracy Flick Can't Win and Mrs. Fletcher

""A propulsive and gripping novel about the literary world, ambition, deception and murder and the twisted corner where they all intersect. Matthew Pearl grabs you from the first sentence and doesn’t let go.""—Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night We Lost Him

The author of Save Our Souls and The Dante Club makes his eagerly awaited return to fiction with this irreverent and propulsive novel about a young writer trying to make his way through a cutthroat literary scene that turns deadly.

David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner.

He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to make eye contact with him.

Until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book.

Suddenly Silas is interested—if intensely spiteful.

But soon, the administrator of the award comes to David with alarming news, forcing the writer into a desperate set of choices.

Fate intervenes—with shocking consequences. . . .

With the wit and psychological wisdom of The Plot and The Winner, The Award is a timely, razor-sharp, and unputdownable novel about writing groups, publishing, ambition, human foibles, and the dangerous things we will do to get ahead.

Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Literary Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Books About Books, Contemporary

Audible Audio

First published December 2, 2025

About the author

Note from the author:Hi everyone. My newest novel is The Dante Chamber, out May 29, 2018. It's a follow-up to my debut novel, The Dante Club, but you do not have to read one before the other, each stands on its own two feet. Hope you'll enjoy any of books you choose to pick up.

Matthew Pearl's novels have been international and New York Times bestsellers translated into more than 30 languages. His nonfiction writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Atavist Magazine, and Slate. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution writes that Matthew's books are part of "the growing genre of novel being written nowadays -- the learned, challenging kind that does not condescend." Globe and Mail declares him "a writer of rare talents," Library Journal calls Matthew "the reigning king of popular literary historical thrillers," and the New York Daily News raves "if the past is indeed a foreign country, Matthew Pearl has your passport." Matthew has been chosen Best Author for Boston Magazine's Best of Boston and received the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction.

In addition to Goodreads, you can keep in touch and learn more at my website, www.matthewpearl.com, and:
Twitter: @matthewpearl
Facebook: fb.me/matthewpearlauthor
Instagram: matthewpearlauthor

Reviews

[Melki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pearl's tale of a struggling writer who butts heads with the insufferable well-known author who lives downstairs is clever, nasty, and a joy to read. There's not a single likeable character here, so you'll find yourself rooting for the least obnoxious player. I loved it!

Many thanks to NetGalley and Harper for sharing.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

ARC for review. To be published December 2, 2025.

3.5 stars

Aspiring author David Trent lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts when he and girlfriend, Bonnie begin looking for a place together. Just as David finishes his first book they find an apartment above the home of award winning author Silas Hale. David couldn’t be more excited about the thought of living above a legend - until he interacts with the horrible Hale. Hales attitude changes, though when David’s novel receives an award Silas once won.

Then David learns some shocking news. Events spiral after.

There were things I liked about this book (I was tense throughout, so Pearl’s sense of drama clearly worked for me) and things I wasn’t crazy about (but won’t spoil.) Overall, though it was very suspenseful and I’m glad to have read it.

[Hank Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh, this is incredibly brilliant. Thought-provoking, bitter, shocking, knowing, and absolutely authentic. It’s literary noir, a riveting and propulsive and irresistible story about a writer with dreams – – and how far someone will go to get what they want. Wry and knowing and terrifying and even laugh out loud funny, this is not to be missed. I devoured it, and cannot stop thinking about it.

[Linzie (suspenseisthrillingme) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought-provoking, witty, and deliciously satirical in nature, The Award combined literary fiction and noir and made it into an immersive experience. From the laugh-out-loud funny scenes to the ethical quandaries, I was pulled into this quick, easy read in no time at all. Perfect for fans of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot, it documented the slippery slope one might slide down in order to achieve their dreams by any means necessary. Riveting, suspenseful, and beyond entertaining, I was completely wrapped up in David’s egocentric worldview. You see, he was the kind of unlikeable character I love. At the same time, I was spellbound by his slow descent into increasingly bad behavior that often reminded me of Patricia Highsmith’s morally gray Mr. Ripley. A complex persona, his race to the top had me glued to the pages from start to finish.

All said and done, despite a somewhat slow start, this suspense-laden novel really made me wonder about Matthew Pearl’s experience in the literary field. Dark and twisted but also believably true-to-life, it had all the elements you look for when you want to be pulled into a fictional world: escalating tension, compelling characters, and plenty of psychological insight. Exploring ambition, rivalry, and how far one will go for their dreams, I think this would be a dynamite book club selection. After all, while most of the characters were rarified jerks, the various takedowns and twists made the plot sing. So if you’re looking for something with a slightly different feel, be sure to grab a copy today. Even though it wasn’t exactly a thriller, I had a blast side-eyeing David as he raced for the upper echelons of literary society. Rating of 4 stars.

SYNOPSIS:

David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner.

He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to make eye contact with him.

Until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book.

Suddenly Silas is interested—if intensely spiteful.

But soon, the administrator of the award comes to David with alarming news, forcing the writer into a desperate set of choices.

Thank you to Matthew Pearl and Harper Books for my complimentary copy. All opinions are my own.

PUB DATE: December 2, 2025

Content warning: death, violence, blackmail

[Jessica Woodbury · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm actually fine with books trying to imitate other books. You just have to do a good job. And if you don't do a good job, then there is no point in even existing since you're already just an imitation. This is a knockoff of THE PLOT that is not interesting and not good. Nothing anyone does makes sense. Somehow David doesn't have a job but can afford living in Cambridge until it suddenly is important for the plot that he not be able to afford it anymore. It's one of those This Is The Only Person Who Knows Something Important books, but it makes no sense that only one person would know it and that he wouldn't have mentioned it to a single other person. The entire book is reverse engineered around needing the plot to go a certain way, so no one acts in a way that is believable at all.

[R L HERSKOWITZ · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 Stars rounded up to 4 Stars.

This book is a story about a person trying
finish writing his first novel. It’s taking him years.
Then he needs to get the book published.
The guy loses sight of everything else in life
- his fiancée, his living accommodation,
the truth, etc.

I feel the book is really about the
politics of getting a book published,
winning book awards
& dealing with other novelists.
Parts were funny.
Parts were ridiculous.
Still, fun to read.


I liked the following sentence.
“Writers have special skills to make an afternoon seamlessly pass without accomplishing anything.”


Please read other reviews for more information.

[Stacy40pages · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Award by Matthew Pearl. Thanks to @harperbooks for the gifted Arc ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Aspiring author David Trent is ecstatic when he rents a place above very author Silas Hale. Until he realizes Silas is a horrible person at heart. When David’s writing wins an award, Silas becomes even more spiteful.

Similar to The Plot, this is the story of a writer who will do a lot to get recognized. It’s a slippery slope. While not quite a thriller, it is suspenseful and definitely keeps the reader enthralled. It’s a moral read that makes you question your ethics, as you find yourself going along with all of David’s actions.

The Award comes out 12/2.

[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’m sure I’ve said this before, but if you’re going to compare a book to Highsmith, it’s going to need to deliver. This does not and it has been on so many best of lists and I’ve seen tons of Highsmith references. The book reads like YA, there are characters that pop up for no reason repeatedly, and the main character is another super obnoxious man baby. It never picks a lane, is it satire? comedy? thriller? It’s also wildly unbelievable, and I get it’s fiction and anything can happen, but there needs to be something holding the outrageous together, and that’s not the case here.

[Barbara Schultz]

Title: The Award
Author: Matthew Pearl
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Format: 🎧
Narrator: Eric Altheide
Publisher: HarperAudio Adult/Harper
Pub Date: December 2, 2025
My Rating: 3.4 Stars

I was attracted to this story as I am an avid reader. SO the life of an aspiring author had me curious.
SO when I saw David Trent described as being such an author and was in!

Story starts when David and his girlfriend, Bonnie begin looking for a place together in Cambridge, Mass. The rent, of course, in Cambridge is extremely high - property is a premium – surely everyone knows it is a privilege to live in Cambridge!
They do find an apartment. However, it has a somewhat strange arrangement. It once was a one family home and the seller decided to make it two apartments. The first floor apartment has two floors and the other apartment is on the third floor. However the stairwell to the second apartment is extremely narrow and impossible for furniture to fit. Thus requires moving via Apartment One’s larger staircase and entering the third floor via a trapdoor.
Bonnie loves the location but David isn’t as excited- Until. . . .

When David finds out the apartment is above the home of award winning author Silas Hale, He is excited about living near such a famous author and thinks perhaps he might help him with his career. – He and Bonnie sign the two-year lease.
David was in for a surprise as Silas is far from someone willing to help. He is a mean man.

There is a mystery in this story and Silas is accused of murder. However, keeps saying David did it.
Story kept me curious.

Want to thank NetGalley and HarperAudio Adult/Harper for granting me this audiobook.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for December 2, 2025.

[Perry · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has some high level similarities to The Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, but takes a different point of view and a different result. I don't know if we are meant to root for David Trent, but we get his sociopathic and paranoid viewpoint. Was he just doing what he needed to do in the cutthroat world of publishing? What would have happened if Leni had simply won the award? This was an enjoyable read, but I felt like Pearl was slightly heavy handed in how things were going to go, so I was not as surprised as I might have been.

[Kim van Alkemade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is there anything an egocentric writer won’t do in the pursuit of success and acclaim? Apparently not when there’s an award on offer, even if it means stooping to the craven depths of deception that high-brow exposés of publishing’s worst offenders drool over. This propulsive send-up of literary ambition kept me up all night!

[Matthew Minicucci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here's my review for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Sunday, November 30th): https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books...

Full text below:

CHASING PRESTIGE

A little over a third of the way through “The Award,” during a particularly raucous holiday party hosted by the famous fictional writer (of fiction) Silas Hale, our main character David is having an intense conversation with another writer, Leni, about the perceived “value” of Hale’s work.

Leni says, in critique of Hale’s famous book “Sevenfold,” “it’s not a man he presents us, it’s man. It projects power and control in the guise of a character that even the ancients rebelled against. How he writes is manipulative, and maybe that’s the whole point. People want to be manipulated.”

Matthew Pearl, the much-loved writer of “The Dante Club,” among many other books, has given us in this new novel a world of writers and intrigue that fits very much into Leni’s assessment here. Unlike some of Pearl’s other novels, however, there’s no secret group or mystery to be solved. The most mysterious part of the work is why the possibilities of power and prestige seem to control so many of these characters in the context of the affluent and not-very-affable Harvard/Cambridge literary community.

One of the most engaging parts of the book is that the biggest parts of being a writer (garnering an agent, placing a book, receiving a residency/writer-in-residence position) are all glossed over in the “meantime” of The Award. Time passes as it seems to for most of us: long stretches of quotidian continuation followed by punctuated complications.

David, speaking with another fellow writer who haunts so many of the coffee shops and bookstores of the greater Cambridge, MA area, tells her “maybe I’m not a writer because I write, but [I’m] someone who writes to become a writer, if that makes sense.”

And it does. For so many of the characters in this novel writing is a means to an end, and that end is prestige and notoriety. As the book continues in its machinations in the second half, everyone has something they want from being a writer, but very few of them seem to have any specific desire to actually write.

As a writer who grew up in a lot of the environments that are being discussed in this book (MFA programs, literary scenes, the Cambridge area where my parents still live to this day), there’s a lot of familiarity with the pugilistic literary scene Pearl describes. He even begins the work with an author’s note saying simply “some of this happened.”

After twenty years in the literary world, I very much believe Pearl. There are astounding moments of arrogance and world-shifting events that seem to happen mostly at random. And (aside from some of the more sinister moments of intrigue and guile) this checks out. There’s always a writer who wants more and there’s always a writer who seems to have everything. And the line between those two writers, as Pearl shows us through David and events surrounding his titular award, is very thin indeed.

In the last real moment of interaction between David, perpetual tenant in the literary world and the established Silas Hale, Hale tells David “becoming a real writer isn’t about your writing. Not really, despite what they tell you in a classroom. It’s about understanding the reality that you have to take what’s yours, at all costs. Because everyone wants to see you choke, and because everything that makes you happy outside your writing will wither and deteriorate.”

Hale couldn’t be more right. Not in the context of the real-world literary community (well, not entirely), but in the context of this novel. Silas Hale is a truthteller, but the truth he brings to David and the myriad next-great-novelists isn’t about story structure or syntax, it’s about themselves. This is a book that feels, on the surface, like it’s about the fault in our literary stars but is actually ⎯ to borrow another writer’s famous phrasing ⎯ in ourselves.

[Zoe Zeid · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like “The Plot” but worse. Unrealistic with an insufferable main character. Glad it was short.

[Deborah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A young would-be novelist is struggling to finish his first book, and sees it as a glorious opportunity when he moves into the apartment upstairs from the celebrated grand old man of Boston letters. Too bad the man turns out to be a monster! But our young hero will stop at nothing to advance his writing career, and things go downhill in a hurry.

[Marissa Goetschel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this book made me tense as I waited for whatever was coming next. I couldn't decide how I felt about the characters or how I felt about the way the story was unfolding around them. There was certainly suspense and some frustration but I enjoyed it.

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thanks to Harper Audio & NetGalley for providing an ALC in exchange for an honest review.

If you liked The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz, you might like this, as it's ... well, not exactly a knockoff, but it definitely has echoes of the former. Possibly beyond echoes, if I'm being honest. I LOVED The Plot, and if *I* were JHK, I'd be calling my lawyer right about now LOL.

Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed The Award. David Trent is every bit as hapless as Jacob Finch Bonner, but rather less likeable. Trent is the character Bonner would be if he were almost completely without a conscience, and with a heavy dollop of sociopathy. Kind of makes him tough to root for, so I spent the book cringing, waiting for someone to figure out this creep is, in fact, a creep. It's a less-gory, less striving American Psycho. American Inert Sociopath?

Other characters, apart from the vile Silas Hale, are so frustratingly un-fleshed out as to be completely forgettable (aside from their ability to catch out Trent). Here, it's helpful to have listened to the audiobook: Eric Altheide saves me by providing one very irritating character with extreme vocal fry, another with the bonhomie of the ever-choad. Trent's GF-cum-fiancée, Bonnie, has the apparent personality of paper, and I was sad when they got back together. Since Trent is impossible to root for, and the others are flimsy as tissue plus annoying, we are left with Leni, the rightful winner of the literary award, insurance doyenne, brilliant writer, and unintentional dupe. There's not much percentage in rooting for her, so I didn't, but she would've been the one if she had been more than a vague sketch of a character.

I think more than anything what this book lacks is a proper villain. The Plot has Anna/Diana, who is so blood-curdling that you keep reading just to see how she'll napalm (almost literally) everyone in her way. Trent is just a person to whom things happen, and he takes that and does essentially nothing. He has only artifice and no skill. Ahem, maybe this is more common with writers than I realized?

3.5 stars rounded up

[Tabitha Renner · Rating 2 out of 5]

ARC from NetGalley

I almost DNF this book multiple times. The main character, David, is insufferable. The story itself is well written, with the reader being able to feel the tension of different situations. What kept me reading to the end was my spite of David and waiting for the shoe to drop.

[Resh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was unputdownable! I finished this one so fast because I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next! 😧

📚A struggling writer believes that he finally gets to share a friendship with a famous writer, who had been a role model for him. He daydreams about this, while believing that this could be the breakthrough moment for him. However, things don’t go his way when the famous writer reveals to be quite the opposite of what he envisioned. Amid this shocking revelation, a series of events occurs which drives him into a state of no return.

📚I was mainly interested in this book because of the literary premise as the plot revolves around writers. The setting is also in Cambridge, Boston which in itself is lyrical. I went in blind and was so hooked from the start! The characters were vivid, questionable, and their thoughts and actions were so realistic! I don’t read a lot of mystery and thrillers so this was such a refreshing read with plenty of plot twists.

📚One thing I really enjoyed was how unpredictable some of the main character’s reactions are. Two times I predicted something, but he did the opposite which kept me on my toes! Another thing I really loved was how the story ended when it should end. No dragging, no fillers, just right! And I loved how “human” the characters were. Humans make mistakes, humans feel emotions like jealousy, fear, anger and everything that comes when you know you are loosing yourself. Flawed characters penned flawlessly!

Highly recommend even if you are not into thrillers like me on a regular basis. The suspense was so good!

Thank you to Harper Books for the gifted copy. All thoughts my own.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oooh what a twisty book! I don't want to spoil anything, but I had NO idea where this book was going and I loved every twist and turn. Reading books about authors is fascinating when you get to be inside their head, and so this book was a lot of fun to see behind the curtain, the motivations and muse for the works. I dislike pretentious authors, but somehow love them in books? I would say most of the characters in this book are unlikeable, but it works perfectly to move the story along and the twists just hit perfectly. I really enjoy how this story is told!

Note: I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a great job of telling the story and showing how these characters can truly gaslight themselves to believing whatever they need to (both good and bad).

Thanks to the publisher for a free ARC and ALC; my thoughts and review are my own.

[Mariga Temple-West · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was so excited to read this. But then... it was disappointing.

This is a quick read that goes down easy. If you just read it and don't think about it too much, it's a fine, enjoyable read.

However, the glaring improbabilities keep getting in the way. Yes, it's a satire, but even so the author has to keep things in the realm of possibility or else the story just gets silly. Our protagonist, David Trent, is apparently an unfeeling sociopath. Okay, fine. But how did he get that way? Did he have a bad childhood? His character, like so many in this story, is paper thin. David is so desperate to be a famous published author he's willing to kill for it. But why? His life doesn't seem so bad. He has no job, is supported by his girlfriend, lives in a nice neighborhood, and spends his days writing in cafes. It is never explained how he can afford to do this. David rails against other writers he knows who have parents paying their way, trust funds, etc., yet David lives exactly like them. Leisure! He's not toiling as a barista or bookseller or office drudge. His "terrible" situation just doesn't fly.

It seems the author had a plot in his head and just forced it and the reader is supposed to overlook this. The author does do suspense nicely, some scenes really make you cringe. But then, other scenes... trying to get a cell phone signal. The phone's charging! No it isn't! It almost is! Spotty service! Oh my!

It's a relatively short novel. If it had been any longer I don't think I would have finished it.

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In Matthew Pearl’s brilliant and cunning new novel, THE AWARD, David Trent represents anyone out there who has ever wanted something for as long as they could remember only to be constantly disappointed.

In this case, it is making a living as a fiction writer. Trent also dreams of being a bestselling author of some renown, and he will not let anything like his own mediocrity at his craft stand in the way of those dreams. Pearl provides us with a quote from poet Nikita Gill to open the book that is very telling: “Writers are dangerous people.”

David and his girlfriend, Bonnie, move into the top floor of a three-story Victorian in the prestigious Cambridge section of Massachusetts. The place is sparse without a proper entrance or stairwell, and it includes access to an upper level that is little more than an alcove. It is also extremely cold, as the tenants on the main floor control the thermostat. For David, it is an easy decision to take the space and its high rent because their downstairs neighbor is none other than his idol --- award-winning fiction writer Silas Hale.

David has shown that he will do anything to achieve his goals and has no ethical or moral qualms holding him back. He got into his MFA program by forging a letter of recommendation from a famous author he had once met who said pleasant things about his writing. Even with that behind him, his new scheme of utilizing Silas as a mentor is not working out well. When he confronts him with the temperature situation, Silas shows him the door and suggests that he invest in more efficient windows like they had when they first moved in. This is extremely disheartening to David as he has been telling other writers that Silas is already mentoring him.

However, things begin to take a positive turn for David when his first novel, The Crises, is published and receives some nice initial notice. Unfortunately, his luck does not hold out for long. His personal life is in disarray when Bonnie breaks off their engagement and leaves their new place after she learns about his failure to properly handle the temperature issue and later lies to her about it. If there was one thing that might get Bonnie back, it would be receiving an award. This becomes a reality when he is informed that his book has won the Boston Literary Prize for Best First Novel. The break he has been craving for so long has finally arrived.

But after telling Bonnie and everyone he knows personally and professionally about the award, David receives some incredibly jarring news that ultimately will have tragic consequences. The final third of the book becomes a snowball of events that place David in and out of peril on multiple occasions and impacts the lives of everyone around him in the process. Nothing is predictable, and Pearl toys with readers in this dark and diabolical novel that grabs you by the throat and never releases its hold.

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[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Matthew Pearl’s The Award is the kind of book that makes you feel slightly smug for reading it and slightly unwell for enjoying it. Published by Harper Books, with thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for my gifted ARC, this is a novel that sidles up to you like a fellow writer at a party and then quietly steals your drink while telling you it was always theirs.

I settled in expecting a clever little literary suspense and instead got a sharp, anxious spiral into ambition, jealousy, and the very specific horror of watching a mediocre man convince himself he deserves everything. David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, which already tells you a lot, and when he moves into an apartment above famous author Silas Hale, things immediately go from awkward to quietly deranged. Silas is awful in that spectacular, egotistical way that only celebrated writers seem to perfect, and David’s obsession with him feels both cringe-inducing and painfully believable.

When David wins a prestigious literary award, the book pivots into something darker and more compulsively readable. I kept thinking, just stop talking, just walk away, just tell the truth, and of course he does none of those things. That’s the fun and the frustration. Pearl understands that ambition doesn’t usually announce itself as evil. It shows up wearing validation and whispers, “You’ve earned this.”

One line in particular sums up the entire vibe: “Writers have special skills to make an afternoon seamlessly pass without accomplishing anything.” I laughed, then stared into the middle distance.

This isn’t a cozy mystery despite the bookish setting, but it is darkly funny, tense, and extremely readable. I didn’t like anyone, and I didn’t need to. Watching the slow moral rot was the point, and Pearl commits to it fully. If you enjoy books about books, messy literary egos, and protagonists you love to side-eye, this one delivers.

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[Kevin Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Award caught my attention when a favorite author, Dean Koontz, recommended it in a recent newsletter. It certainly lived up to Koontz’s description as twisty and unputdownable. I read the entire book in a day and found myself sweating through my undershirt as the suspense kept ratcheting up. The protagonist, David Trent, is a classic antihero, a regular guy who’s generally well-intentioned but doesn’t let honesty impede his literary ambitions. He’s a struggling writer, having spent five years toiling on a draft novel and suffering from imposter syndrome in Cambridge’s fiercely competitive, elitist writing community. When he and his girlfriend rent a third-floor apartment connected to Pulitzer Prize winner Silas Hale's house, David sets his sights on a mentor who could jumpstart his career. Things start badly with Silas, who turns out to be a pretentious, overbearing jerk. Still, even without Silas’s help, David’s novel gets picked up by a small publisher and wins a prestigious literary award, garnering him instant respect. Too good to be true, of course, as the award’s organizer later informs David that his book was mistaken for a similarly titled novel and that he only has two weeks to prepare for the announcement of the actual winner. But David won’t let his dreams of literary fame die so easily, and his scheming to preserve the award gets him into ever deeper trouble. Despite David’s serious character flaws and ethical lapses, I couldn’t help rooting for him against Silas, his entitled protégé Barnaby, and the other despicable characters who would thwart him in this darkly comedic satire of literary elitism.

[Julie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh I really detested this book. I did not like the main character at all. I am putting most of this review in spoiler protection so I don't inadvertently spoil the story for anyone who hasn't read anything about it yet.

He is a writer, or a wannabe writer, who rents an apartment on top floor of a house in which a well known irascible writer lives on the first two floors with his wife. He believes that he will develop a friendship and mentor/mentee relationship with this author who will propel him to stardom. Of course that does not happen, the writer is nasty and unfriendly.

Meanwhile, the writer, David, finishes his books, sends it to publishers, one of them decides to publish and then he learns he won an award! Hurray, he's happy! And tells everyone. His fiancee, Bonnie, has a little party for him and life is good. But then he learns the award was a mistake - another book: Crisis - is the one that should have won. His is titled Crises.

What this sets off is a series of incidents, deaths, murder, prison for the nasty author before his death - all because David is trying to protect the secret that he really didn't win the award. I was sooo mad that he never got his comeuppance but rode off into glory.

Ugh, this book was just not for me! I was not the intended audience, for sure!🤦‍♀️

[Danis Miller-Bucholz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good read and I would've given it 5 stars if not for the fact that I felt it ended a bit abruptly. That being said, I had trouble putting this one down! If you've read the novel The Plot then parts of this novel will feel somewhat familar to you. Without giving too much away, this novel is a classic psychological thriller following the protagonist, David, who is an aspiring novelist deeply entrenched in the Cambridge writing community. He and his girlfriend end up renting space on the upper level of a home owned by a famous novelist he has admired for years, and the plot then spirals outward from there. There's envy, deceit, insecurity, and murder all well on display here. There's not many likable characters, but there are a lot of insecure, flawed human beings just trying to find their place and that makes this a dark, interesting study in human nature - I think it's what kept me reading late into the night to finish this - I really wanted to see how the author ended this one and what happens to the protagonist!