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The Last Days of Vic & Coco: A Novel
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Expected 2 Mar 27They called them Crown Vic and Baby Blue…
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a daring story of two friends chasing their biggest score yet—and risking everything that binds them together.
As any good hustler can tell you, every successful con works the same
1. Identify an unsuspecting mark and gain their trust.
2. Promise them everything they desire…and give them just enough to believe you.
3. Take the mark for everything they’ve got and disappear.
Victoria Lucchese and Colette Wilson have been running their pool hustle for years, driving around the country and leaving overconfident men with empty wallets in their wake. The con is Coco, magnetic and fearless, draws men in with her good looks and convinces them to play against her friend, Vic. Precise and unstoppable, Vic runs the table clean. Vic and Coco are the closest thing to family either one has ever had…even if they don’t know each other’s real names.
But now it’s the summer of 1974. Nixon is on the brink of impeachment, there’s an oil crisis, prices are soaring, jobs are scarce, and Vic and Coco are starting to feel the squeeze. Word is spreading about two women to watch out for, and they’re running out of places to hide and marks to hustle. That’s when they set in motion a plan that will bring them their biggest payday yet…or cost them everything.
Sharp, seductive, and electric, The Last Days of Vic & Coco is set in the sun-and-shadows world of long desert highways, seedy motels, and dive bars. It’s the story of two women living by their wits, making their own rules, and traveling light. Even though they want different things from life, they swear they will stick together. But can you ever really trust the promises of a hustler?
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a daring story of two friends chasing their biggest score yet—and risking everything that binds them together.
As any good hustler can tell you, every successful con works the same
1. Identify an unsuspecting mark and gain their trust.
2. Promise them everything they desire…and give them just enough to believe you.
3. Take the mark for everything they’ve got and disappear.
Victoria Lucchese and Colette Wilson have been running their pool hustle for years, driving around the country and leaving overconfident men with empty wallets in their wake. The con is Coco, magnetic and fearless, draws men in with her good looks and convinces them to play against her friend, Vic. Precise and unstoppable, Vic runs the table clean. Vic and Coco are the closest thing to family either one has ever had…even if they don’t know each other’s real names.
But now it’s the summer of 1974. Nixon is on the brink of impeachment, there’s an oil crisis, prices are soaring, jobs are scarce, and Vic and Coco are starting to feel the squeeze. Word is spreading about two women to watch out for, and they’re running out of places to hide and marks to hustle. That’s when they set in motion a plan that will bring them their biggest payday yet…or cost them everything.
Sharp, seductive, and electric, The Last Days of Vic & Coco is set in the sun-and-shadows world of long desert highways, seedy motels, and dive bars. It’s the story of two women living by their wits, making their own rules, and traveling light. Even though they want different things from life, they swear they will stick together. But can you ever really trust the promises of a hustler?
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Expected publication March 2, 2027
About the author
Taylor Jenkins Reid
26 books249k followersTaylor Jenkins Reid is the New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere, Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, as well as four other novels. Her next novel, The Last Days of Vic & Coco, will release on March 2, 2027. She lives in Los Angeles.
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August 15, 2026And no one told me about this book?
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July 24, 2026NEW TJR
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July 16, 2026It is abt FEMALE FRIENDSHIP !sign me up Plzzz🙋
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July 16, 2026This just made my day. I've been waiting for a new release and we finally have it...VERY excited.
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July 17, 2026Pre-release: I have not yet read any TJR book but this blurb sounds way too good 🥹🩵 seems I need to get on her books already! Should I start with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo?
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July 16, 2026BEYOND excited to read the last days of vic & coco!🩵
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October 21, 2026the way I didn't know about this until now because why was this not on my "want to read" shelf?
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July 16, 2026NEW BOOK!!!!!
NEW BOOK!!!!!!
NEW BOOK!!!!!!
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July 16, 2026reading a taylor jenkins reid book means you're always going to be fed. do i know anything about pool? hell no. is this book going to change my life? hell yes.
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July 16, 2026OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF TJR writes it.... I WILL READ IT
IF TJR writes it.... I WILL READ IT
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October 24, 2026★ 10/30/26: Cause chapter 1 was shared with us and reading it was so oh my god. I can’t wait for this book to come out😣 The excerpt just made me realize why I love TJR so much!!! — Can’t wait to read more of Coco and Vic’s dynamic 🥹
And I had to hear about this from YOUTUBE?! OMFG
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July 16, 2026pls be gay pls be gay pls be gay pls be gay pls be gay
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July 16, 2026Whenever this woman writes a new book, you can be sure I’m going to read it. No doubt.
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July 21, 2026NEW TJR WHO WAS GONNA TELL ME
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July 16, 2026This woman has managed to make me care about tennis, messy privileged Malibu surfers, astronauts and now, pool hustlers in the 70s, apparently???? I'm sure I will inhale this in a few days like her other books.
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
I was so excited to get an early copy of this book... I really love TJR's earlier books, and this one sounded so good. Unfortunately, boring is how I would summarize the first half of this book. I didn't really connect with the characters which made the story even less exciting. That being said, I still enjoyed reading it, and it did pick up the last 100 pages. I also liked the ending. 3.5 stars rounded up!
Review of advance copy
A man in a well-cut suit walks into a roadside diner near Indio, California, and a blond woman at the register cannot get the cap off the mustard. She asks for his help, the bottle goes off like a firework across his lapel, and in the flurry of apologies, salt water and napkins, his jacket comes off and goes back on again a few seconds lighter. His wallet ends up on the dashboard of a rusting 1968 Bronco that the two women won in a game. It holds seventeen dollars. The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid opens on that small, funny theft, and within a few pages it has shown you everything it cares about: one woman who can read anyone, one who can only be herself, and the money that never quite stretches.
Who Really Runs the Last Days of Vic & Coco
Victoria Lucchese is one of the best pool players in the country, and nobody can know it. Six years ago Colette Wilson walked into a Detroit bar and found her running the table in a stained shirt, making every man in the room furious, and since then they have worked a simple routine. Coco plays the loud drunk who insists her friend can beat anyone, Vic plays the shy friend who only knows a little, and some man who wants to feel generous loses a hundred dollars. If Vic wins too beautifully, men get violent. If she plays just well enough, they decide she got lucky. Reid makes that bind the emotional engine of the book, and the scene in which Vic finally explodes about it in the truck is among the best things she has written.
Coco is the brain of the outfit, and she lies about everything, including her age. Reid gives her a pay phone and a secret in the very first chapter: the feds have picked up her trail, and she needs a score big enough to leave the country. Vic does not know. The novel alternates close third-person chapters between them, and Coco's are often only a paragraph or two, terse confessions she will not make out loud. It is a clever piece of construction. You know more than Vic does, but never as much as Coco, and The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid plays that gap like a hustler would.
Vic is the reason the book has a heart. She left school after sixth grade, taught herself from library encyclopedias and carries her facts around like loose change: why icebergs look blue, how the retina flips the world. Each night she wedges a chair under the motel doorknob. When the pair settle in Canyonville, Arizona, and Coco talks Roman Maclean, an old flame with a ranch house and a reputation, into staking Vic at sixty-forty in his favour, Vic gets something she has never had: permission to play as well as she can. The match against Roman's ringer, a sullen giant billed as the Tucson Tornado, is thrilling even if you cannot tell a bank shot from a break.
The Card Mechanic and the Last Days of Vic & Coco
The counterweight to the partnership is Tony, a green-eyed card cheat who clocks the women's routine in a Nevada bar and keeps turning up. He is dealing a crooked game for a local operator called Eddie, and his courtship of Vic is a running argument between two professional liars about whether either can be trusted. The banter is quick and the attraction is played straight, and The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid is honest that the danger is not Tony himself but what he represents: a door marked ordinary life.
Reid surrounds that temptation with a town that keeps offering Vic a home. Leona at the Desert Willow motel bakes for her guests. Louie, who runs the diner, pays for pool lessons by losing and wants Vic to humiliate his rich cousin Neil. Vic asks him for a waitressing job just to feel needed. Every kindness tightens the knot in The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid, because Coco's plan depends on leaving. Underneath it all runs Nixon's last summer, and the headlines suggest the whole country is working an angle.
Where It Gives Ground
The middle circles one question. Through much of the third part, Vic and Coco, Vic and Tony, and Vic and herself rehearse the same dilemma about staying or going. Several of those conversations could be folded together without losing anything. A tighter edit of The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid would lose a few chapters and nothing else.
The villains arrive by convenience. The forces closing in on the women are thinly drawn for most of the book, and the connections between them surface late and all at once. For a novel about reading people, its antagonists are oddly hard to see coming, and not in a good way.
Part Two pumps the brakes. Right after the momentum of the opening, Reid steps back into two long backstories. They are moving, one of them devastating, but the switch will test readers who came for the caper.
The Last Word
The pool is the bait, and the friendship is the hook. The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid is at its best in a sweaty Arizona bar at one in the morning, when Vic calls every shot of a nine-ball rack out loud and Coco looks at her as if she invented the game. The book takes too long in its middle, and its bad men are mostly scenery. But the two women at its centre will stay with you, arguing in the front seat of that Bronco with Coco's feet on the dash.
This review was written from an advance copy, and the finished text may differ. The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid is out on 2 March 2027 from Atria Books. Rack them up.
Who Really Runs the Last Days of Vic & Coco
Victoria Lucchese is one of the best pool players in the country, and nobody can know it. Six years ago Colette Wilson walked into a Detroit bar and found her running the table in a stained shirt, making every man in the room furious, and since then they have worked a simple routine. Coco plays the loud drunk who insists her friend can beat anyone, Vic plays the shy friend who only knows a little, and some man who wants to feel generous loses a hundred dollars. If Vic wins too beautifully, men get violent. If she plays just well enough, they decide she got lucky. Reid makes that bind the emotional engine of the book, and the scene in which Vic finally explodes about it in the truck is among the best things she has written.
Coco is the brain of the outfit, and she lies about everything, including her age. Reid gives her a pay phone and a secret in the very first chapter: the feds have picked up her trail, and she needs a score big enough to leave the country. Vic does not know. The novel alternates close third-person chapters between them, and Coco's are often only a paragraph or two, terse confessions she will not make out loud. It is a clever piece of construction. You know more than Vic does, but never as much as Coco, and The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid plays that gap like a hustler would.
Vic is the reason the book has a heart. She left school after sixth grade, taught herself from library encyclopedias and carries her facts around like loose change: why icebergs look blue, how the retina flips the world. Each night she wedges a chair under the motel doorknob. When the pair settle in Canyonville, Arizona, and Coco talks Roman Maclean, an old flame with a ranch house and a reputation, into staking Vic at sixty-forty in his favour, Vic gets something she has never had: permission to play as well as she can. The match against Roman's ringer, a sullen giant billed as the Tucson Tornado, is thrilling even if you cannot tell a bank shot from a break.
The Card Mechanic and the Last Days of Vic & Coco
The counterweight to the partnership is Tony, a green-eyed card cheat who clocks the women's routine in a Nevada bar and keeps turning up. He is dealing a crooked game for a local operator called Eddie, and his courtship of Vic is a running argument between two professional liars about whether either can be trusted. The banter is quick and the attraction is played straight, and The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid is honest that the danger is not Tony himself but what he represents: a door marked ordinary life.
Reid surrounds that temptation with a town that keeps offering Vic a home. Leona at the Desert Willow motel bakes for her guests. Louie, who runs the diner, pays for pool lessons by losing and wants Vic to humiliate his rich cousin Neil. Vic asks him for a waitressing job just to feel needed. Every kindness tightens the knot in The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid, because Coco's plan depends on leaving. Underneath it all runs Nixon's last summer, and the headlines suggest the whole country is working an angle.
Where It Gives Ground
The middle circles one question. Through much of the third part, Vic and Coco, Vic and Tony, and Vic and herself rehearse the same dilemma about staying or going. Several of those conversations could be folded together without losing anything. A tighter edit of The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid would lose a few chapters and nothing else.
The villains arrive by convenience. The forces closing in on the women are thinly drawn for most of the book, and the connections between them surface late and all at once. For a novel about reading people, its antagonists are oddly hard to see coming, and not in a good way.
Part Two pumps the brakes. Right after the momentum of the opening, Reid steps back into two long backstories. They are moving, one of them devastating, but the switch will test readers who came for the caper.
The Last Word
The pool is the bait, and the friendship is the hook. The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid is at its best in a sweaty Arizona bar at one in the morning, when Vic calls every shot of a nine-ball rack out loud and Coco looks at her as if she invented the game. The book takes too long in its middle, and its bad men are mostly scenery. But the two women at its centre will stay with you, arguing in the front seat of that Bronco with Coco's feet on the dash.
This review was written from an advance copy, and the finished text may differ. The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid is out on 2 March 2027 from Atria Books. Rack them up.
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July 16, 2026i mean of course... of course i'm there
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July 16, 2026might as well give tjr my bottle of tears rn
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July 22, 2026SO VERY HYPE
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October 4, 2026The Queen has written! We shall read.
AND it's about con artists and female friendship? I'm so ready!
AND it's about con artists and female friendship? I'm so ready!
October 2, 2026
Perfect of course. I am sobbing. Vic, you have my heart.
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July 21, 2026I am sat. The bookstore employees are telling me to leave because the book doesn't come out until March 2027, but I am SAT.
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July 16, 2026I'VE RISEN FROM THE DEAD OH MY GOD! (Yes, I've already preordered it, and what about it?)
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August 16, 2026guys ????
October 11, 2026
This started out a little slow but after I got through halfway, I couldn’t put it down. Vic has my heart ❤️
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
It was good. It was really really good, I was hooked and entertained and couldn't stop reading. But I know Taylor Jenkins Reid can do better.
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July 28, 2026Let me go ahead and file this where it will belong 🫠🫠🫠
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July 18, 2026QUE QUELQU'UN ME FILE MON VENTOLIN RAPIDOS JE VAIS FAIRE UN MALAISE VAGAL SUR LA CHAISE DE MON POSTE DE TRAVAIL COMMENT CA UN NOUVEAU LIVRE EN 2027 TAYLOR CE SERA LA MEILLEURE CHOSE DE MON ANNEE ??!!
July 24, 2026
I received an ARC and I’m so glad I did. I really enjoyed this from start to finish.
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